Crosby Forest Products #1 and Pearl River Valley MW01 are on display in Shay Park, Picayune MS

Wood burning 2-truck Shay #1 was built for the Batson-McGehee Lumber Co., based in Millard, MS, by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, OH, in 1925. The engine weighs 69,400 lbs with 29” drivers and three vertically mounted
10” x 10” cylinders. Operating at a boiler pressure of 180 psi, it delivered 14,320 lbs tractive effort. The bunker holds 1¼ cords of wood and 1,200 gallons of water.

Batson-McGehee ceased operations in 1940 and #1 sat behind the commissary in Millard after the mill shut down until, three years later, it was sold to the Goodyear Yellow Pine Co., in Picayune, MS. The joint Goodyear Yellow Pine-Rosa Lumber Co., logging railroad was incorporated as the Pearl River Valley Railroad in 1917.

By 1941, the timber was nearly cut out in the area, and the Goodyear Company was on the verge of liquidation.
However, the coming of WWII produced valuable defence orders and the company diversified. In February 1950, the name was changed to the Crosby Forest Products Company and, that year, #1 went into storage out of service. The locomotive was donated to the City of Picayune some time in the 1960s.