✅ SOLVED Railroad tag?

[dfx-kevin]

G.S.L. CO.
2957
LAST HALF
SEP. 1915
Is this a railroad tag/marker?

 

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[Breezie]

It probably is because I found this little blurb: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov › ... › September 23, 1915‎

23 Sept. 1915. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064054/1915-09-23/ed-2/seq-1/> ..... 'in - i usa A. E. Hudson, chief car inspector r of of the G. S. L. Co., on the north side, ...

Neat find
Breezie

 

[dfx-kevin]

Thanks, you must've dug deep for that one. Didn't know cause bougalousa is a paper mill town and gsl co might be a lumber company and the tag could be a lumber tract of land

 

[taz42o]

Great Southern Lumber Company

 

[Breezie]

Great Southern Lumber Company

So is it a lumber tag or a train car tag?


Breezie

 

[taz42o]

Lumber company tag but for what I do not know. Cant find any vintage tags marked last half.

 

[Breezie]

Lumber company tag but for what I do not know. Cant find any vintage tags marked last half.

Oh, okay . . wonder what was up with the link I found. Do you think there was a Chief Car Inspector for lumber? Could the lumber have been hauled away by train?

 

[taz42o]

They probably had their own rail spurs with inspections there but they also started the great northern RR.

The Great Southern Lumber Company also expanded into other enterprises, including the establishment in 1905 of the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad to transport their products, the Bogalusa Paper Company in 1918-1937, Bogalusa Turpentine Company, Bogalusa Tung Oil, Inc. and the Bogalusa Stores, their commissary.

 

[Bramblefind]

I wasn't able to decide if it was for the lumber co operations - like a tool tag or for the railroad aspect of it. They did have their own cars - this is from 1922:

Shay Geared Steam Locomotive Advertisements

The locomotive pictured is the Great Southern Lumber Co. #204 - s/n 1684

 

[Bramblefind]

This is from 1914 and shows that the cars marked "G.S.L. Co." were numbered in the 2000+ range. But it doesn't show them as high as #2957.

The Official Railway Equipment Register - Google Books

 

[Breezie]

Good job Bramble (as usual)


Breezie