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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramHilliard and Bailey Lumber Company train - Hilliard, Florida
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Engine named "Florida" but dubbed "Runaway" after an incident in the 1880s when an engineer left a head of steam in its boiler at quitting time, causing it to slowly chug down the tracks toward Hilliard later that evening, alone. Usually the engine pulled lumber from the Hilliard and Bailey mill in Hilliard to the company's Kings Ferry docks.
The engine pictured is a 0-4-2 Forney locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia. It was designed for light railroad use on 5-foot gauge tracking.
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