#20, an oil burning Mikado type (2-8-2) locomotive was bought in 1930 by the Temple Lumber Company in Pineland, TX, from the Baldwin Locomotive Works for $39,000.
The locomotive weighs 191,600 lbs, 137,640 lbs on its 56” drivers. It has a 15’ 3” driver wheelbase and 31’ 4” engine wheelbase with Walschaert valve gear and 20” x 28” cylinders. The grate is 41.5 sq ft, the firebox 148 sq ft and total heating surface is 3,069 sq ft including 603 sq ft superheating. Operating at a boiler pressure of 200 psi, it delivered 34,000 lbs tractive effort. The tender weighs 131,660 lbs light and has a capacity of 2,500 gallons of oil and 6,000 gallons of water.
Pineland started as a sawmill and lumber camp on the Gulf, Beaumont & Great Northern Railway, which was constructed through Sabine County in 1902. The GB&GN was acquired by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in 1903. In 1906 the Garrison Norton Lumber Company took over the timber operation. In 1910, Garrison Norton decided to move the operation to another location, when Thomas L. L. Temple, founder of the Southern Pine Lumber Company and part owner of the mill, bought the operation.
Temple then formed the Temple Lumber Company, which was merged into the Southern Pine Lumber Company in 1956 later becoming Temple-EasTex, Inc.
It is possible #20 was kept operable as a boiler to provide plant steam in the Pineland Temple mill until 1985, when it was donated to the City of Pineland and placed in the Katherine Sage Temple Park where it is on display with the old Santa Fe depot building. The depot was moved from its original location and may be the future site of a Pineland City museum.
