Green Brothers Gravel Company

gbgc_state industrials_gravel Green Brothers Gravel Company was a small gravel pit operation near Jenkins, Louisiana, located in Washington Parish. The site employed an ex Southern Pacific 0-6-0 steamer and a former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler"(below) to shuffle gondola cars of gravel in the pit and out to interchange with the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio. Both locomotives are on static display at the Washington Parish Fairgrounds in Franklinton, Louisiana.

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Green Brothers Gravel Co. #72

Jenkins, La / Oct 1961 / JCH

Green Brothers Gravel Co. #72

builder:Alco - Schenectady

arrangement:4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler"

built:Jan 1914, Alco #54484

fuel:soft coal / water

notes:

20x26" cylinders, 61" drivers

blt New Orleans Great Northern #72
to Gulf, Mobile & Northern #72
to Gulf, Mobile & Ohio #72
to Green Bros Gravel Company
on display, Franklinton LA

Jenkins, La / Oct 1961 / JCH

Jenkins, La / Oct 1961 / JCH

from New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper Dixie insert
- Jul 1975 / collection

July 2017

While visiting family for the Christmas holidays, I finally made a trek to Franklinton to check on the condition of steamer #72 in the fairgrounds. I had not seen her since I was a kid. I was pleased to see the tall kettle under roof and covered in a recent coat of jet black paint, as opposed to out in the weather and rusting through. A sampling of my display pictures below sent to historian Louis Saillard prompted this reply:

I appreciate the photos of NOGN 72 on display at Franklinton (which was built in 1914, and re-boilered in 1928). Your dad got some good shots of the engine in service at Franklinton, more correctly, Jenkins, not Enon. That loco was retired in 1964, the year before I got to Jenkins for the first time. The 72, was however, still intact at the pit in 1964 and looked like it could be fired up (if you didn't look too closely at the condition of the drivers).