Manatee Crate Company #2 is on display at the Manatee County Historical Society in Bradenton, FL

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Manatee Crate Company #2, Bradenton, FL

The Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA, built
two wood burning narrow gauge (36") Prairie type (2-6-2) locomotives for the Taylor County Lumber Company in Springdale, FL, in 1913 (#1 & #2).

With a build identical to that shown on the Lee Tidewater Cypress #2 page of this website, the engine weighs 764,000 lbs, 56,400 lbs on its 44” drivers. The driver wheelbase is 8’ and the engine wheelbase 22’ 9”. Equipped with Stephenson valve gear and 13” x 22” cylinders, it has a 13.3 sq ft grate, 74 sq ft firebox and total heating surface of 767 sq ft. Operating at a boiler pressure of 180 psi, it delivered 12,929 lbs tractive effort. The tender weighs 60,000 lbs light and has a capacity of 3,000 gallons of water.

In 1913, #2 was sold to the Brooks-Scanlon Corporation in Foley, FL, and, later, to the Manatee Crate Company near Bradenton, FL, where it was named “Old Cabbage Head” because of its cabbage smokestack. The Manatee mill closed in 1953 and, the following year, #2 was sold to the City of Bradenton, FL, for $900 by the Florida Iron & Metal Co., in Jacksonville, FL.

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#2 initially went on display on the lawn of the South Florida Museum in Bradenton and then in Rossi Park on the riverfront for several years.

It was moved to its current location in 2002 by the Florida-Georgia Tractor Company for $300.

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