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Southern Railway 4501 is a preserved Ms class 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive.Built in October 1911 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, No. 4501 was the first of its wheel arrangement type for the Southern Railway (SOU).
Southern Railway 722 is a Ks-1 class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built in September 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works to run on the Murphy Branch, where it hauled freight trains between Asheville and Murphy, North Carolina for the Southern Railway (SOU).
[16] [17] No. 630 was also given a newly welded smokebox and a larger tender originally used behind No. 4501, as the former's original tender was in very poor condition to be rebuilt. [17] [18] The locomotive returned to operating service on March 14, 2011, and kicked off the 21st Century Steam program instituted by Norfolk Southern. [1] [19]
The Southern Railway's Steam Program was created by Paul Merriman and TVRM, after Merriman purchased the former Southern Railway 4501 in 1964 from the Kentucky & Tennessee Railway in Stearns, Kentucky for $5,000, equal to $49,120 today. By 1966 the 4501 had been restored during a 2-year process, conducted at Lucey Boiler Company in Chattanooga.
The 610 Foundation negotiated with the AFT Foundation to allow No. 610 to pull the Freedom Train throughout Texas and possibly other parts of the southwestern United States. [22] By July 1974, Don Ball, who was the vice president for government and business relations for the AFT Foundation, promised that No. 610 would pull the train in Texas in ...
Test runs were performed in September 2014 and the locomotive returned to the main line in May 2015. Unfortunately, the excursion program was again ended by Norfolk Southern in early 2016 after just one season of mainline operation for the 4501. The locomotive continues to operate semi-regularly at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
Tennessee Valley Railroad No. 610 is a preserved S160 Class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation for the U.S. Army in March 1952. It is one of the last steam locomotives built for service in the United States and the last new steam locomotive acquired by the U.S. Army.
A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.