Grand Trunk Western #6039
4-8-2, Builder: Baldwin Locomotive Works, June 1925. Builder's no. 58463.
Cylinders: 26 x 30
Drive Wheels: 73
Weight on Drivers: 231,370
Boiler Pressure: 210
Tractive Effort: 49,590
Built for Grand Trunk Western Railway as #6039. One of five in the 6037-6041 series, GTW class U- I c. Has a Vanderbilt tender and an enclosed cab. Purchased for passenger service but easily adapted to freight hauling. During the 1950s leased to Central Vermont Railway. Last and only surviving steam locomotive in common carrier service in Vermont. Sold to Nelson Blount, 1959. Only Mountain locomotive in the collection. One of fourteen remaining 4-8-2s in the U.S.

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