Cummer Lumber 104 Heritage photo

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Terry Bryson	General	I was able to decipher this document . Hopefully it will appear below. It has special meaning to me since my grandparents lived and my mom was born in Lacoochee!	9/7/2013 5:46:55 PM

Terry Bryson	General	I was able to decipher this document . Hopefully it will appear below. It has special meaning to me since my grandparents lived and my mom was born in Lacoochee!	9/7/2013 5:49:10 PM

Terry Bryson	General	The Cummer Lumber Company of Jacksonville Florida and its successor Cummer Sons Cypress Company owned several steam locomotives which were primarily used to transport logs from the woods to the mill and to switch cars and logs and lumber on the mill properties.	9/7/2013 5:49:40 PM

Terry Bryson	General	The smaller "Porter" locomotives were used primarily on the logging woods while the "Baldwin" locomotives like the "104" was used on the company’s main line railroads and under trackage rights on the Florida railroads of the Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coastline.	9/7/2013 5:50:40 PM

Terry Bryson	General	All these locomotives were standard gauge and at first burned wood for fuel and later were converted to coal The "104" was capable of pulling a heavy train load of 35 cars of logs.	9/7/2013 5:51:46 PM

Terry Bryson	General	t first this locomotive was used on the tracks of the company owned and built railroad of Jacksonville and Southwestern which ran from Jacksonville through Gainesville to Double Sink some 125 miles southwest of Jacksonville, the terminus of the extensive line logging operations. The logs were taken to the mill in Jacksonville. Later the "104" was used in Levy county to carry logs to the cypress mill at Usher(?)	9/7/2013 5:52:34 PM

Terry Bryson	General	In 1920 with the building of a large modern cypress mill and box factory at Lacoochee, the "104" was used to transport the cypress logs from operations at Homosassa and Fruitland(?). The locomotive pulled its full load of logs each day from these locations to Lacoochee under tracking arrangements with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad using its own crew of engineer and brakemen.	9/7/2013 5:53:23 PM

Terry Bryson	General	With the closing of these logging camps the "104" was used on the mainline of the company's railroad at Lacoochee bringing in pine, cypress and hard wood load from the large holdings of timber lands there. Later when this timber was cut-out and logs were shipped from many areas of Florida to the mill, the "104" was used as a switching engine taking logs from the siding to the mill and taking loaded cars of lumber and crate material back to the sidings for use by both major railroads in the state.	9/7/2013 5:54:30 PM

Terry Bryson	General	The "104" remained in service until the logging ??? closed in the 1940's This locomotive and others ??? the Cummer company were given to the ?? and ?? ?? in Florida ??? where they were used.	9/7/2013 5:55:25 PM

Terry Bryson	General	I make NO claims to the accuracy of the document above, only that I was able to transcribe it for preservation. I visited the engine last week and the above document is almost totally gone. TB	9/7/2013 5:57:13 PM

Gregory Garbacz	General	what a surprise to find this. I just happened to be in Edgewater Fl the day you posted these! Thanks! Greg	9/10/2013 9:55:06 AM

Cummer Lumber 104 Heritage photo
Set here in 1975 it would surprise me that no one has any better photos than I can take. Here the description in more easily read by those whos eyes are better than mine.
Date: 4/20/2011	Location: Leesburg, FL Map	Views: 429	Collection Of: Gregory Garbacz
Locomotives: CUMMER LUMBER(2-6-2)			Author: Gregory Garbacz

Picture Categories: Scenic,Steam		This picture is part of album: Florida Central and the Florida East Coast 4-20, 4-21, 2011

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