{"id":4446,"date":"2025-10-05T09:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2025-10-05T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:19:29","slug":"photos-past-an-alm-steamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/10\/05\/photos-past-an-alm-steamer\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos Past: An A&LM Steamer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For this first posting in the month of October, I\u2019m featuring a photograph from the 1986 calendar published by the Louisiana State Railroad Museum, it being for their<\/em> month of October. The caption for the image: “A&LM 4-6-0 #1 with Engineer James W. Smith at the Main Mill Crossing at Huttig, Arkansas, June 1955. Engine retired after last run in May 1958. (Photo from the H. B. Wilson collection.)”. I had posted this photograph just a bit over a year ago, but it’s my favorite image from the aforementioned calendar, so here it is again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the website Mississippi Rails<\/em>, the Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri Railway has a history going back to 1909. The road was formed initially as the Arkansas, Louisiana & Gulf Railway. In 1915 it was reorganized as the Arkansas & Louisiana Midland Railway. In 1920 it became the Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri Railway, and in 1991 the company was sold and became the Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi. It thrives today under the Genesee & Wyoming umbrella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A&LM<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From the beginning until the late \u201940s the company acquired a roster of about 14 steam locomotives. Their initial locomotive was bought new, but all others were acquired in a very used state. The #1 joined the roster in 1946, and the little ten-wheeler became the last to see operation on the road, her last run being in May of 1958. She was a 1920 product of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, built for the Texas-Mexican Railway as their #1 where she served before being sold to the A&LM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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