a 2-6-2 on the Valley Railroad, Essex, Connecticut

A Baldwin-built loco from 1925, intended as a light short-line/logging engine which saw service in Alabama. The Valley Railroad Company obtained it from the Empire State Railway Museum for the Valley's first steam locomotive in the late 1960s. "Its last run was in 1975 when it was deemed not powerful enough to pull any of the railroad's trains." It is now stored at the Naugatuck Railroad in Connecticut. A history and description of the Valley Railroad is on its official website