Wood burning narrow gauge (36”) Mogul type (2-6-0) locomotive #3 was built by the H. K. Porter Company in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1905 and bought by the Tilghman Lumber Co., in Sellers, SC. The engine weighs 33,000 lbs, 27,500 lbs on its 31” drivers. With 10” x 14” cylinders, it operated at a boiler pressure of 160 psi delivering 6,140 lbs tractive effort. #3 was later sold to the Argent Lumber Company.
The Argent Lumber Company was established in February of 1916, when Horace W. Phillips Jr., J. Ross McNeal and William B. McNeal formed a company in order to log an 8,000 acre tract of original growth short-leaf pine twenty-five miles north of Savannah, GA. The name "Argent" came from the friend of the company's lawyer who had a race horse of that name. In 1956, the company was sold to the Union Bag-Camp Paper Corporation of Savannah, GA. The following year, the old Argent Lumber assets were all sold, including #3, which went to the Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp., in Bluffton, SC, in 1960.
In 1985, it was donated to the Southern Forest World Museum in Waycross, GA.
