Atlantic & Gulf No. 3 on static display.
Atlantic & Gulf No. 3 named, The Satilla is an "American" type (4-4-0) steam locomotive it was built at a cost of $8,200 by the Rogers Locomotive Works in 1858 for the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad to work at one of its logging plants.
The "Satilla" was sold to the Savannah, Florida & Western Railway in 1879 and, ten years later, to the J. J. McDonough Lumber Co.
Renumbered #110, it worked for the next thirty-five years at McDonoughs until it was purchased by Ford in 1924.
He then donated it to the Edison Institute in 1928, where it was renamed "The President" in honour of President Herbert Hoover when it was chosen to haul a set of specially built cars to the opening of the Institute.
Today it's on public display at the Henry Ford Museum.
Trivia[]
- It was one of the first locomotives bought by the railroad and was named "Satilla" after the river of that name.
- This locomotive was originally named "Satilla" after the Satilla River.
- This is the only engine from the Atlantic & Gulf railroad that still Exist.
- Ford loaned the locomotive to appear at the 1927 Fair of the Iron Horse in Maryland.
- Its original nickname was the "Sam Hill". It was later renamed the "President" by Henry Ford, as it pulled a special train with President Herbert Hoover and Thomas Edison among others for the 1929 dedication of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.