Nostalgia & History > 4 of Ashley Drew & Northern Ry Co. Switchers and a CF7

1. Ashley Drew & Northern EMD SW9 907 built Sept. 1959 as Hammond Redwood SW900 seen in Corssett, Ark. April 23, 1988.  B ill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS Collection

2. Ashley Drew & Northern Ry Co. EMD SW1200 176 built in Dec. and seen in Crossett, Ark. May 24, 1975. Gorsden Lloyd, JR. photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS Collection

3. Ashley Drew & Northern Ry Co. rebuilt EMD CF-7 1514 built May 1951 as AT&SF F7A 255C and seen in Crossett, Ark. April 23, 1988. Unknown photographer, Iowa Chapter NRHS Collection



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4. Ashley Drew & Northern Ry Co. SW1200 150 built May 1970 seen in Cicero, IL May 31, 1970.  Unkown photographer, Iowa Chapter NRHS Collection

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AD&W 907 is an SW900 and AD&W 150 is an SW1500.

Georgia-Pacific Corp bought Hammond Lumber Company of Samoa, California, in late 1956.  G-P initially set up the Hammond-California Redwood Company, which completed the purchase on 22 October 1956.  G-P ordered that SW900 new from EMD in 1959, the same year the company fully aborbed Hammond-California Redwood.  The timing may have been that Hammond-California initially ordered the SW900, but if so it got delivered in full Georgia-Pacific paint and lettering.  The locomotive, then numbered 102, spent only about two years on the California coast before G-P shut that railroad down, at which point the #102 moved over to replace the Shays on the Feather River Railway.  It spent four years working on that operation until G-P replaced it with an Alco S-3, at which time the parent company sent the locomotive to the AD&N, initially as their #102 and then #907.  The locomotive then went to the Gloster Southern in 1988; then to the Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi for a year; and then finally to Ashdown, Arkansas, initially to work at a G-P paper mill that got spun off to Domtar.  Reportedly still there.  

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV

I've not seen -- or didn't register -- the orange/green scheme before. Very nice.