{"id":4173,"date":"2025-03-23T12:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2025-03-23T12:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:55:50","slug":"green-bro-gravel-co-141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/03\/23\/green-bro-gravel-co-141\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Bro. Gravel Co. #141"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In February of 2009 Ron Findley and I were touring around southern Mississippi looking for railroad &#8220;targets of opportunity&#8221; to photograph.  We came across this Green Brothers steam locomotive at her display site located at the junction of Routes 27 and 28 in Georgetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was built by Alco in 1923 for the Mississippi Central Railroad as their #141 at a cost of $49,745.  This Mikado (2-8-2) type locomotive worked on the MSC&#8217;s Hattiesburg to Natchez, Mississippi route.  As the railroad dieselized, #141 was one of two MSC Mikados (#127 and #141) that were sold to the Green Brothers Gravel Company in 1953.  There she worked at the company&#8217;s Georgetown, Mississippi plant until retired, and was then donated to the City of Georgetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Green-Bro-141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Green-Bro-141.jpg\" alt=\"Green Bro. Gravel Co. #141\" class=\"wp-image-4172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Green-Bro-141.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Green-Bro-141-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Green-Bro-141-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Green-Bro-141-470x300.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The #141 weighs 251,000 lbs, has 22&#8243; x 28&#8243; cylinders and 52&#8243; drivers. She is a coal burner and operated at a boiler pressure of 195 psi, delivering 45,500 lbs of tractive effort. She appeared to have relatively fresh paint on the date photographed . . . hopefully she will be kept in this state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February of 2009 Ron Findley and I were touring around southern Mississippi looking for railroad &#8220;targets of opportunity&#8221; to photograph. We came across this Green Brothers steam locomotive at her display site located at the junction of Routes 27 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/03\/23\/green-bro-gravel-co-141\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-like","category-railfanning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4177,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}