Big Four rod locomotive

Description

This photograph shows the Pigeon River Railway's Big Four, a 90-ton rod engine that ran from Canton to Spruce via Sunburst, Inman, Pendland, and Burnett Siding as a mixed train whose load consisted of a traditional red coach, a red caboose, a coal tender, a gondola car, boxcars, and a long string of steel skeleton cars. The terrain proved too difficult for this locomotive and was traded in August, 1916 for a low-drivered 2-8-0. James Miller, engineer standing between the cab and the tender, was responsible for the last piece of railroad steel to be taken up and moved to Waynesville when Sunburst closed down on September 15, 1926.
Details
- Creator
  - Myers, J. Q.
- Format
  - Photographs
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date original: circa 1913
  - Date digitized: 2017-05-16
- Extent
  - Dimension: 3.75" x 5"
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Haywood County (N.C.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Regional Photographs Collection
- Identifier
  - HL_RP_329
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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