Watched this beast work a couple of times back in the day. It had the same roller chain drive on the engineer's side between the center and lead drivers. Proper nomenclature would be a 1-C, I suppose. Its primary purpose was shoving wood chip hoppers under the loading spout. My recollection is it had a stick shift with some long linkage to the transmission. It had an instrument panel which looked a lot to me like one in a 1941 Oldsmobile. Note what appears to be a builder's plate in place on the engineer's side smoke box ventilation flap. There was a battery salvage operation off in the woods in another Louisiana town that used an 0-6-0 with the same set up.

Does anyone know the final dispo on these critters? I don't see either the 2-6-0 or the 0-6-0 on the steam survivor lists on Steamlocomotive.com or steamlocomotive.info. Is that because they didn't make it, or because they're no longer steam locomotives?

I don't know for certain; but my guess is they are both gone. I think most "list keepers"; including myself would list them with a note that they were converted to diesel if they were still around. Conrad mentions the locomotives converted to diesel for amusement park use at the end of his directory; and my CD and the above websites list conversions as well.

If you check out Ada, LA on Goggle Earth; there appears to be little left to the Woodard-Walker Lumber Co. today; there is a road named after it. My guess is that they were scrapped when the mill closed; little historical reason to keep such a mutt around.

This arjaycob guy got through the filter. His post is nonsense and he loaded it with linked to site loaded with Trojans.