New York Central 3001
Preserved NYC L-3 class 4-8-2 locomotive
New York Central 3001
New York Central 3001 is a preserved 4-8-2 Mohawk ("Mountain") type steam locomotive, built in October 1940 by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York as a member of the L-3a class for the New York Central Railroad (NYC). Normally known as Mountain types, the NYC 4-8-2 steam locomotives were dubbed as Mohawk types after the Mohawk River, which ran alongside NYC's famed Water Level Route. Built for dual-service work, No. 3001 was used to haul both freight and passenger trains on the NYC system until being retired in February 1957. Instead of being sold for scrap, No. 3001 was sold to the Texas and Pacific Railway (T&P), where it was masquerading as T&P No. 909 and donated to the Museum of the American Railroad (MARR) in Dallas, Texas. In the mid-1980s, No. 3001 was acquired by the Lakeshore Railroad Historical Foundation and was subsequently donated to the National New York Central Railroad Museum (NNYX) in Elkhart, Indiana. It is the largest modern mainline NYC steam...
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