Power type Steam Build date October 1929 UIC class 2′D1′ h2 | Serial number 68126 Configuration 4-8-2 | |
Builder American Locomotive Company | ||
New York Central 2933 is 4-8-2 "Mohawk", (Mountain), type steam locomotive built in 1929 by the American Locomotive Company for the New York Central Railroad. The wheel arrangement is known as the Mountain type on other railroads, but the New York Central dubbed them "Mohawks" after the Mohawk River which the railroad followed. It pulled freight trains until being retired in 1955. Today the locomotive is on display at the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, Missouri. It is the second largest New York Central steam locomotive still in existence and is one of only two surviving New York Central "Mohawks", the other, No. 3001, is on display at the National New York Central Railroad Museum in Elkhart, Indiana.
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History
It was originally built for the Big Four Railroad and was numbered 6233, it was renumbered 2933 in 1936 when the locomotive was transferred to the New York Central.
Service life
New York Central No. 2933 is a member of the class L-2d. It powered freight trains until retirement in August 1957.
Preservation
One story says that New York Central employees hid 2933 behind large boxes in a roundhouse in Selkirk, New York, but there is little evidence to support this. The locomotive was used as a stationary steam boiler for the shops before it was placed in storage. After a request penned by the museum director in 1962, it was donated to the Museum of Transportation, making it the only large New York Central steam locomotive to be donated directly by the railroad