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| Last updated on August 8, 2025
Crewmen toss pine knots into the tender of Mississippi & Alabama 2-6-2 Prairie-type No. 4 at the wood rack, or “wooding-up platform,” in Leakesville, Miss., in September 1948. The Prairie-type was the 17-mile road’s only locomotive.
C.W. Witbeck photo
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