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This information is taken primarily from Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown, by Gordon Chappell, 1991, reprinted 1996 to reflect changes in the collection. Also, this information appears in The Steamtown Collection: Steamtown National Historic Site Locomotive Roster 1997-1998. Both are available at the Steamtown Museum Store.

• Operating Locomotives
• American Steam Locomotives
• Canadian Steam Locomotives
• Diesel-Electric Locomotives
• Electric Locomotive
• Visiting Locomotives

• Baldwin Locomotive Works No. 26

Type: 0-6-0 Switch engine
Built: Baldwin Locomotive Works, March 1929
Used: Baldwin Eddystone Plant, Eddystone, PA.
Sold to: Jackson Iron and Steel No. 3, Jackson OH in 1948.
Used as a yard shuttle for short tours and demonstrations.
• Canadian National Railways No. 3254

Type: 2-8-2 "Mikado"
Built: Canadian Locomotive Company, Kingston Works, 1917
Used for excursions but currently undergoing its five-year inspection..
• Canadian Pacific Railway No. 2317

Type: 4-6-2
Built: Montreal Locomotive Works, June 1923
Passenger locomotive. Just finished 5-year inspection.
Currently used for excursions.
• Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago and St. Louis) GP-9, No. 514

Type: 0-4-4-0 A.A.R. Type: B-B
Built: Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Corporation, La Grange, IL, 1958
Currently used as a yard switcher.
Re-painted into Nickel Plate colors as of Spring, 1998.
• Boston and Maine Railroad no. 3713 (The Constitution)

Type: 4-6-2 Pacific
Built: Lima Locomotive Works, December 1934
Passenger engine. Currently under restoration to full working status.

• Berlin Mills Railway No. 7

Type: 2-4-2T (tank)
Built: Vulcan Iron Works, Wilkes-Barre, PA, January 1911
Used: Berlin Falls, NH at a sawmill/paper mill as a switch engine
Sold to: Groverton Papers Company, Groveton, NH in 1944. (1944)
• Brooks-Scanlon Corporation No. 1

Type: 2-6-2 Prairie
Built: Baldwin Locomotive Works, August 1914
Used: Carpenter O'Brien Lumber Company
Also: Lee Tidewater Cypress Corporation
Also: J.C. Turner Lumber Company
It spent most of its life near Perry, FL as the company it worked for went through mergers and acquisitions.
• Bullard Company No. 2

Type: 0-4-0T (tank)
Built: H.K. Porter, October 1937
Used: Machine tool company as a switch engine.
Perhaps the smallest engine made for standard gauge.
• Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad No. 565

Type: 2-6-0 Mogul
Built: American Locomotive Company (Schenectady Works), 1908
Also used by: Dansville & Mount Morris Railroad
The only other DL&W engine surviving is in the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis.
• E.J.Lavino and Company No. 3

Type: 0-6-0T Saddle tank
Built: American Locomotive Company, Schenectady Works, April 1927
First owned by Poland Spring Company in Maine.
Lavino and Company used it as a switch engine in a manganese blast furnace at Sheridan, PA.
This engine has Stephenson Valve gear, rigid wheel base of 10 feet, 2 inches.
• Grand Trunk Western Railway No. 6039

Type: 4-8-2 Mountain
Built: Baldwin Locomotive Works, June 1925
The Grand Trunk Western Railway, in the USA, was owned by the Grand Trunk Western Railroad of Canada which became part of the Canadian National (owned by the government of Canada).
• Illinois Central Railroad No. 790

Type: 2-8-0 Consolidation
Built: American Locomotive Company, November 1903; rebuilt 1918
Used: Chicago Union Transfer Railway until 1904. Numbered ICR No. 641 until 1943.
• Lowville and Beaver River Railroad No. 1923

Type: 2-8-0 Consolidation
Built: American Locomotive Company, Cooke Works, Paterson, NJ, October 1920; resold March 1923
Built for Compania Azucarera Central Reforma (Cuba) but never delivered.
Used on a short line in New York's Adirondack region.
• Maine Central Railroad No. 519

Type: 2-8-0 Consolidation
Built: American Locomotive Company, Schenectady Works, February 1913
One of the last three steam locomotives on the Maine Central.
• Meadow River Lumber Company No. 1

Type: 2-truck Shay-geared
Built: Lima Locomotive Works, Lima, OH, May 1910
Used: hardwood lumber manufacturing plant in West Virginia.
• New Haven Trap Rock Company No. 43

Type: 0-4-0T Saddletank
Built: Vulcan Iron Works, Wilkes-Barre, PA, December 1919
Used: Connecticut trap rock quarry.
• Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago and St. Louis) No. 44

Type: 4-6-0 Ten-wheeler
Built: American Locomotive Company, Brooks Works, December 1905
Sold to: Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railway in 1920 (renumbered 304) and to the Dansville and Mount Morris Railroad (NY) in 1929.
• Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago and St. Louis) No. 759

Type: 2-8-4 Berkshire
Built: Lima Locomotive Works, Lima, OH, August 1944
This is the last steam locomotive overhauled by the Nickel Plate.
• Norwood and St. Lawrence Railroad No. 210

Type: 2-6-0 Mogul
Built: American Locomotive Company, Cooke Works, Paterson, NJ, December 1923
Used: New York State short line near the St. Lawrence River.
• Public Service Electric and Gas Company No. 6816

Type: 0-6-0F "Fireless" switcher
Built: H.K. Porter, February 1923; also reported as July 1923
Used: Newark, NJ.
This engine carries no fuel and cannot heat water to make steam. It is connected to a stationary steam boiler and charged with steam then runs around the work area until next charge is needed.
• Rahway Valley Railroad No. 15

Type: 2-8-0 Consolidation
Built: Baldwin Locomotive Works, June 1916
Used first by Oneida (TN) and Western Railroad as No. 20.
Bought by the Rahway Valley Railroad of New Jersey in 1937. The Rahway connected to the DL&W at Summit, NJ and the No. 15 was at least once repaired in the DL&W Scranton shops.
• Reading Company No. 2124

Type: 4-8-4 Northern
Rebuilt: Reading Works, January 1947.
Used: for "Reading Rambles" in the 1960's.
Originally a 2-8-0 built by Baldwin in the 1920's, was rebuilt as a T-1.
Designed to burn anthracite.
• Spang, Chalfant & Co. No. 8

Type: 0-6-0 Switch engine
Built: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1923
Sold to Duquesne Slag Products Co. in 1954.
Sold to Penn View Mt. in 1963.
Engine and tender have several sections removed to show actual working parts. Interior is color-coded for fire, water and steam.
• Union Pacific Railway No. 4012

Type: 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy"
Built: American Locomotive Company, November 1941
Length: 132 feet, 9 1/4 inches.
Retired by UP in 1962 after logging more than one million miles. In good mechanical condition but too heavy for rails in northeast US.

• Canadian National Railways No. 47

Type: 4-6-4T "Baltic tank"
Built: Montreal Locomotive Works, September 1914
Originally owned by Grand Trunk Railway (No. 1542) while still a private corporation.
Used: Montreal commuter service.
• Canadian National Railways No. 3377

Type: 2-8-2 "Mikado"
Built: Canadian Locomotive Company, Kingston Works, 1919
• Canadian National Railways No. 5288

Type: 4-6-2 "Pacific"
Built: Montreal Locomotive Works, 1918
Used: Passenger trains in eastern Canada.
Stored off-site.
• Canadian Pacific Railway No. 2929

Type: 4-4-4 "Jubliee"
Built: Canadian Locomotive Company, 1938
Used for lightweight fast passenger service. Stored off-site.

• Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul & Pacific 97A/97C

Type: 0-4-4-0 A.A.R.
Built: Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Corp, La Grange, IL, 1950
• Kansas City Southern Railway 74D

Type: 0-4-4-0 A.A.R. Type: B-B
Built: Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Corp, La Grange, IL, February 1951
• Wabash Railroad 132

Type: 0-4-4-0 A.A.R. Type: B-B
Built: Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Corp, La Grange, IL, February 1953

• Delaware, Lackawanna & Western No. 2505

Type: MU (Multiple Unit) A.A.R. Class: EP
Built: Pullman Car and Manufacturing Co., 1930
 Used: Erie-Lackawanna No. 3505, Conrail, NJ Transit Authority
Semi-permanently coupled to a "trailer" unit (it could go either direction), one car could be the control unit for five additional pairs (total of twelve cars). The pantographs on top get electricity from an overhead catenary.

• Blue Mountain & Reading No. 425

Type: 4-6-2 "Pacific"
Built: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1928
Used: Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad.
Now owned by Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad.
Colored blue. Operational.
• Pennsylvania Railroad No. 1361

Type: 4-6-2 "Pacific" (PRR type K4s)
Built: PRR Juniata Shops, Altoona, 1918
Pulled Broadway Limited and other fast passenger trains.
Owned by Railroaders Memorial Museum, Altoona, PA.
On display at Horseshoe Curve for many years.
Being restored to operational status for return to Altoona.