Argent Lumber #5?

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:13 pm

Just a guess. If so, it is a rare Lima narrow gauge 2-6-2, presently at Nevada City, California, a long way from its South Carolina roots.

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o anderson · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:15 pm

If this is the Argent Lumber engine, it is interesting to see it with its proper tender. As I understand it the engine was in private ownership in Ohio, where somehow its tender was lost after it moved to a private owner in California. It was relocated to the current owners and restored sometime in the 1980s or 90s. It has a cabbage stack, which makes me wonder if these photos are of it. How many cabbage stacks were preserved, anyway?
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Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:28 pm

Just spent 20 minutes comparing photos and drawings of Argent Lumber #5, and aside from the obvious lack of Argent-installed cabbage-stack, there are too many detail differences for it to be Argent 5 or any of its predecessor identities.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:41 pm

o anderson wrote:

If this is the Argent Lumber engine, it is interesting to see it with its proper tender. As I understand it the engine was in private ownership in Ohio, where somehow its tender was lost after it moved to a private owner in California. It was relocated to the current owners and restored sometime in the 1980s or 90s. It has a cabbage stack, which makes me wonder if these photos are of it. How many cabbage stacks were preserved, anyway?

"Argent: Last of the Swamp Rats" by Mallory Hope Ferrell (1994 Pacific Fast Mail) says all of the Argent steam locos have been saved, albeit not all with cabbage stacks--Argent 2, ex-New Berlin & Winfield 2, I think had her original shotgun-style stack restored by the Midwest Central and was backdated to NB&W. Midwest Central also has #6. #7 I last saw on display in Hardeeville, SC with cabbage; #3 is in Waycross, Ga. with cabbage after years in the swamps at the Union Bag Co. lodge at Palmetto Bluff, SC (I spent hours traversing their lodge property in 1986 looking for the damned thing). #1 reported as privately owned in Warrior, Alabama; #4 owned by Dr. Richard May of Santa Monica, Ca.; and #5 discussed above.