Outshopped in 1911 from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA, this Ten Wheeler type (4-6-0) locomotive was built for the E. P. Rentz Lumber Company’s Ocala Northern Railroad as #101.
With Walschaert valve gear and 16” x 24” cylinders, #5 weighs 95,000 lbs, 72,000 lbs on its 50” drivers. The engine wheelbase is 23’ and the driver wheelbase 12’ 10”. It has a 15.5 sq ft grate, 90 sq ft firebox and total heating surface of 1,222 sq ft. Operating at a boiler pressure of 160 psi, it delivered 16,712 lbs tractive effort. The tender weighs 57,000 lbs light.
#5 was sold to the Shreveport, Houston & Gulf Railroad in Manning, TX, in 1913. The SH&G was a short line located in Angelina County, TX, founded in 1906 to build from Prestridge, on the St. Louis Southwestern Railroad, to Houston.
The line was abandoned in 1936 and #3 was one of three SH&G locomotives that went to W. T. Carter & Brother in Camden, TX, in 1936 where it worked between Angelina and Polk County mill towns on Houston, East & West Texas tracks hauling timber from local cutting areas.
The locomotive was donated to the Polk County Museum in 1970, now the Polk County Memorial Museum in Livingston, TX, and is on display on W Church St.
