GTW 6039 @ Steamtown VT (1982) - a photo on Flickriver

GTW 6039 @ Steamtown VT (1982)

            1925 BLW 4-8-2 (Mountain), Class U-1-c

Built in June 1925 by Baldwin. It served the Grand Trunk Western Railroad by pulling fast passenger and freight trains throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, until the railroad decided to dieselize their locomotive fleet. 

During that time, it was leased to the Central Vermont Railway for freight service, only to become one of the very last steam locomotives to regularly operate in the state of Vermont. 

After being retired in the late 1950s, No. 6039 became one of the very first steam locomotives to be owned by F. Nelson Blount, and it subsequently became part of his Steamtown, U.S.A. collection for static display.

In 1984, the locomotive was moved along with every other locomotive in the Steamtown collection from Bellows Falls to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where the name would late be changed to Steamtown National Historic Site under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. As of 2023, No. 6039 remains on static display at Scranton with very meticulous cosmetic care. 

No. 6039 is the sole survivor of the GTW's 4-8-2 locomotives, and it is one of only seventeen steam locomotives from the GTW that are preserved.

Taken in: United States / Vermont / Rockingham / Bellows Falls (show map)

Taken on: September 18, 1982

Tags:

GTW 6039

Grand Truck Western

4-8-2 (Mountain)

class U-1-c

Steamtown VT

9-18-1982

scanned negative

black and white

Ilford XP-1 film « less

Sets appears in: • Grand Trunk Western • Steamtown U.S.A., Vermont more » • Black and White « less

Groups appears in: • Railway Preservation • Baldwin Locomotives more » • Trains in Black and White • Railroading In Black and White • Grand Trunk Western « less

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