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Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway Steam Locomotive No. 101

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Area
  
less than one acre

Designated CP
  
June 11, 1992

Added to NRHP
  
24 January 2008

NRHP Reference #
  
07001425

Year built
  
1922

Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway Steam Locomotive No. 101

Location
  
NW. of Jct. of N. Main St. & Union Pacific RR., Fordyce, Arkansas

Part of
  
Fordyce Commercial Historic District (#92000608)

The Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway Steam Locomotive No. 101 is a historic steam locomotive located near the Cotten Belt Railroad Depot in downtown Fordyce, Arkansas. It is the last known steam locomotive associated with the Fordyce and Princeton Railroad. It was built in 1922 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway. It was sold to the Fordyce and Princeton in 1931, and retired in 1948. Given to the city of Little Rock, it was displayed at the Little Rock Zoo for twenty years, and was moved to Fordyce in 2007.

References

Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway Steam Locomotive No. 101 Wikipedia