Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester & Camilla Railway Co., #100, "C. W. Jackson" is a Mikado type (2-8-2) locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1930.
The engine weighs 173,000 lbs, 129,000 lbs on its 52” drivers. It has a 14’ driver wheelbase and 29’ 3” engine wheelbase with 19” x 26” cylinders. The grate area is 38.8 sq ft, the firebox 157 sq ft and total heating surface is 2,685 sq ft including 535 sq ft superheating. Operating at a boiler pressure of 200 psi, it delivered 30,685 lbs tractive effort. The tender weighs 123,000 lbs light with a capacity of 6,000 gallons of water and 10 tons of coal.
South Georgia businessman J. N. Pidcock organised the Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester & Camilla Railway in 1922 to buy the Ashburn-Camilla line from the Gulf Line Railway, which was owned by the Hawkinsville & Florida Southern. Founded in 1889 by the businessman G. V. Gress and others as a lumber line, the ninety three mile H&FS had entered receivership and was being broken up. Pidcock bought the fifty one mile Ashburn to Camilla section of the line and operated the GAS&C as part of his Georgia Northern Railway system.
In 1966, the Southern Railway took over the line and, in 1972, merged it and the Albany & Northern into the Georgia Northern.
#100 was donated to
the town of Sylvester, GA, and it now stands in a park at the junction of N Main St & E Franklin St.
