To my knowledge, this was the last time 3020 moved under its own power. Roundhouse forces pumped just enough steam into the engine from the building's heating plant to bring up the boiler pressure. I have no clue how they did it. In any event, after the fellow walking atop the bridge plate lined up the turntable with the roundhouse track, he moved the manually operated rail locks into place. I heard a slow, quiet chuff or two as the steam engine slowly moved onto the movable bridge. The fellow in the white hat, who I think was also the engineer, spun the deck over a few tracks, and the engine quietly chuffed again - just once- and coasted onto its new storage track. I learned much later they almost left it on the table too long. After that last chuff, it coasted because it had no more power. Ca. 1953.

Photographed by Leo King, 1953.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, May 22, 2004.
Railroad: NY, NH & H.

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