Shelby's Historic Train
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Shelby Township Historical Committee

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The locomotive on the township grounds was built by the American Locomotive Company Cooke works in 1920. It has a 2-4-2 wheel arrangement. Boiler pressure is 190 pounds; tractive effort 17.405 pounds, weight on drivers 50,000 pounds, and burned coal.
  
It was sold by the builder in March 1920 to Singer Manufacturing Company at St.Johns, Quebec. It was then sold to the Goverment of Ontario in 1964 and then Frank Levy of Hamilton Ontario in August 1965. Later in 1965 it sold to Stan Gorman of Oakville Ontario. Robert Owen of Romeoville, Mi bought it at a later unknown date and then later in 1976 Shelby Township purchased it.
 
   The caboose was probably built by the Pullman Company's Hammond Indiana works. It can be seen on the grounds of the Shelby Township Municipal Building next to the Andrews Schoolhouse.















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