U.S.A. 4039 "Earle H Gil" sits with other items on display at the Whippany Railroad Museum. Employees were getting ready for the upcoming Easter Bunny trains.
0-6-0 No. 4039 was built November 1942 for the U.S. War Department by the American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, NY
Construction No. 70421
Corps of Engineers Spec. No. T-1560; Designed and Constructed for U.S. military service in the Far East, Africa and Europe for World War II. But, when dslivered to the Army it was instead used to switch stateside military bases throughout the duration of the war.
In 1966 the unit was coverted from Coal to Oil.

Length 60.7"
B pressue 190lbs psi
44" drivers

Photographed by Gerald Miner, March 9, 2008.
Added to the photo archive by Mark Beebe, March 14, 2008.
Railroad: Whippany Railroad Museum.

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