#3 was built as a 2-4-2ST (Saddle Tank) engine by H. K. Porter in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1925 for the Bibb Brick Company in Macon, GA. It weighs 65,000 lbs and has 46” drivers and 14” x 20” cylinders. Operating at a boiler pressure of 180 psi, it delivered 13,038 lbs tractive effort.
The Bibb Brick Company was started in 1902 with a plant in Macon, GA, and its own railroad with spur tracks to the Central of Georgia and Southern railroads. After suffering adverse financial conditions, the plant and railroad were acquired by the Cherokee Brick & Tile Co., in the late 1930s.
#3 was donated to the Atlanta Chapter of the NRHS in 1961 and then moved to Duluth, GA, in 1974. It is on display in East Point Park in East Point, GA, without its original tank and attached to a small tender. There was no access to the locomotive when I visited, so the photographs I took were quite limited. The condition of the engine and Southern Railroad Caboose #346 to which it is coupled is also pretty poor.
