This former US Army hand-fired engine is the normal power on daily trains except when tourism falls off and it is replaced by the GP-7's. It is still used throughout the fall on longer excursions on weekends. This is the last steam engine ever delivered to the Army. Built in 1952, one year younger than the GP-7's. At that time the Army needed to train the Transportation Corps crews to operate foreign steam engines in case we invaded a country that only had steam power. (Iraq?)

Photographed by Elliott Hoffman, October 5, 2002.
Added to the photo archive by Elliott Hoffman, October 8, 2002.
Railroad: Tennessee Valley.

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