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The Luraville Locomotive
By Cosmos Mariner, November 14, 2018
The Luraville Locomotive Marker (left panel)
• Logging Railroads in America •
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| Near Conner Boulevard, 0.2 miles east of Capital Circle Southeast (U.S. 319), on the right when traveling east. |
| | (left panel) The Luraville Locomotive is a rare example of the early American wood-burning “Iron Horses,” which helped carve the United States out of the wilderness in the pre-Civil War era.
The Eight-wheeled, 10-ton engine . . . — — Map (db m131838) HM |
| Near Conner Boulevard, 0.2 miles east of Capital Circle Southeast (U.S. 319), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Its specific identity lost to time and the Suwannee River, the Luraville Locomotive is one of the nation's oldest "iron horse" steam locomotives. Most likely built between 1850 and 1855, the oft-modified 10-ton, wood-burning American 4-4-0 steam . . . — — Map (db m67648) HM |
Jun. 15, 2024