Area less than one acre Designated CP June 11, 1992 Added to NRHP 24 January 2008 | NRHP Reference # 07001425 Year built 1922 | |
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.
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