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Lee Tidewater Cypress Company #16 at Copeland, Florida

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Local call number: JJS2157

 

Title: Lee Tidewater Cypress Company #16 at Copeland, Florida

 

Date: ca. 1950

 

General note: The 2-6-2 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in June 1919 for the Burton-Swartz Cypress Company in Perry, Florida. It had 44" drivers, 16" x 24" cylinders, operated at 180 psi boiler pressure, and could exert up to 21,400 lbs of tractive effort. The locomotive later became Lee Tidewater Cypress Company No 16 at Copeland, Florida.

 

Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 5 x 4 in.

 

Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection

 

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com

 

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Uploaded on July 29, 2013
Taken circa 1950