CN 47 @ Steamtown VT (1982)
1914 MLW 4-6-4T, Class X-10-a, "Baltic tank"
CN No. 47 was originally built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in September 1914 for the Grand Trunk Railway as its No. 1542, class K2, but became a CN locomotive after the creation of the Canadian National Railway in 1923. No. 47 was based in Montreal and was used exclusively in commuter service.
It is one of only three preserved CN 4-6-4Ts (No. 49 at the Canadian Railway Museum in Delson, Quebec and CN No. 46 at Vallée-Jonction, Quebec) and is the only Baltic-type suburban tank locomotive remaining in the United States.
Following retirement in June 1959, No. 47 was sold to F. Nelson Blount. The locomotive entered service during the Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Railroad's (MS&N) first season in the summer of 1961 operating on the tracks of the Claremont and Concord Railway near New Hampshire's Lake Sunapee. The locomotive operated in revenue service for barely five weeks when the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) ordered it removed from service on August 26, 1961 due to a need for boiler re-tubing.
The locomotive was then put on static display in North Walpole after its last run and was later moved across the Connecticut River with the rest of the Steamtown, U.S.A. collection to Bellows Falls, Vermont.
No. 47 was later moved with the rest of the collection in 1984 to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where it currently remains on static display outside in the yard of Steamtown National Historic Site.
CN 47 @ Steamtown VT (1982)
1914 MLW 4-6-4T, Class X-10-a, "Baltic tank"
CN No. 47 was originally built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in September 1914 for the Grand Trunk Railway as its No. 1542, class K2, but became a CN locomotive after the creation of the Canadian National Railway in 1923. No. 47 was based in Montreal and was used exclusively in commuter service.
It is one of only three preserved CN 4-6-4Ts (No. 49 at the Canadian Railway Museum in Delson, Quebec and CN No. 46 at Vallée-Jonction, Quebec) and is the only Baltic-type suburban tank locomotive remaining in the United States.
Following retirement in June 1959, No. 47 was sold to F. Nelson Blount. The locomotive entered service during the Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Railroad's (MS&N) first season in the summer of 1961 operating on the tracks of the Claremont and Concord Railway near New Hampshire's Lake Sunapee. The locomotive operated in revenue service for barely five weeks when the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) ordered it removed from service on August 26, 1961 due to a need for boiler re-tubing.
The locomotive was then put on static display in North Walpole after its last run and was later moved across the Connecticut River with the rest of the Steamtown, U.S.A. collection to Bellows Falls, Vermont.
No. 47 was later moved with the rest of the collection in 1984 to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where it currently remains on static display outside in the yard of Steamtown National Historic Site.