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Mississippi Lime Company

History of the Mississippi Lime Company coming soon, including the story of the incline narrow gauge railway.

Locomotive specifications

  • Mfg: Brookville Locomotive Works
  • Weight: 3 tons
  • Model: BMD
  • Year Built: 8/1972
  • Engine: Re-engined from an International Harvester Engine UC-135B to an Isuzu Diesel C240 (1996)
  • Transmission also replaced in 1996 with a Borg Warner type shuttle transmission
  • Gauge: 42"ga

Locomotive History

  • Mississippi Lime Co., Ste. Genevieve, Mo  8/16/1972

             Operated on an elevated structure servicing pulling a dump car of lime for the kiln operation

  • A member of the Ohio Vintage Coal Company, Columbus, Oh 4/25/2008
  • Cosmetic restoration  May., 2008

Brookville Locomotive, Brookville Mine Locomotive

Mississippi Lime Company

The plant in the horizon, notice the kilns in operation

The last of the General Electric 80 ton center cabs were just pulled out of service & replaced with track mobiles.

The G.E. 25 ton locomotives are still holding their ground for the time being.

The 42" gauge incline railway leading up to the former kilns

The dump cars would be hoisted up the incline where the Brookville locomotives would transfer the cars to each kiln on the elevated structure.

The former kilns withe the 42" gauge elevated railway

Hoist house

1 of 2 Brookville locomotives that our group members purchased

Former side dump car that was hoisted up the incline to the kilns (scrapped)

2nd Brookville locomotive that our group members purchased, NOTICE the steep incline in the background

The (2) standard gauge G.E. center cabs used to service the plant. Now out-of-service and replaced with track mobiles.

Couplers locked in time

2nd G.E. 80 ton center cab

SPECIAL THANKS to Tony for taking his time to allow us to come in & load on his weekend off.