| Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in October of 1905 with construction number #26574, #20 would spend it's entire career hauling freight trains on the Danville & Western Railway between Stokesland, Virginia, and Staurt, Virginia. The locomotive was used alongside sister ten wheeler #21 until the end of steam on the D&W with the purchase of several RS-2s from the American Locomotive Works in the late 1940's. With the absorption into the Southern Railway system at the same time, the D&W was consolidated into the operations of the Carolina & North-Western Railway and labelled the Martinsville Division. Photographs exist of this locomotive in North Carolina working on the C&N-W although I've never seen any. This photograph was probably taken at the Southern Railway's Dundee yards in Northern Danville, Virginia, where the D&W had trackage rights. Date is an estimate. Photographer unknown. |