United States Army 0-6-0T No. 5002
Fort Eustis, VA, United States 		Location: US Army Transportation Museum
Status: Restoration
Posted: Jun 18, 2025 @ 15:06:32 by Marshall Deets
The engine is still in Baraboo, WI. It is setting outside at a trucking yard just down the street from the shop where it had been worked on. I saw it and took photos of it on 5/26/25......MLD
Posted: May 10, 2022 @ 16:05:10 by Matthew Gardner
Was told by somebody BMG closed its doors and moved to Virginia. Not sure what became of the engine.
Posted: Oct 3, 2018 @ 08:10:04 by Miguel Guerrera
Oct 2018, #5002 was removed from Boyerstown, PA and is in Baraboo, WI at a steam shop. Was told it was to be repaired and is now privately owned. I saw it on the highway near Chicago, the truck driver waiting for permit time.
Posted: Mar 19, 2018 @ 11:03:48 by Matthew Gardner
This engine is no longer at Colebrookedale Railroad. It was too far gone for project 02 to restore. The engine is in such bad shape that if anyone were to try to fix it, it would probably be a whole new locomotive by the time they were done with it. This engine was built for the U.S. Army, and was built in order to last the duration of the war, and then be disposed of. Most of these actually got sent overseas to the warzones, so they probably thought a good number of these might actually get blown up. They were the cheapest of the cheap locomotives to buy. I read that some post war buyers of these engines, who actually bought some of them in never used condition, still had to replace the entire fireboxes in them after just a few years. They also had a severe problem with the lubricators where they could only go down the mainlines for only a few miles before their bearings overheated. This particular engine worked for the Philadelphia docks for a few years, and then for E.J. Lavino company, racking up a total of 15 years of service life. It was then bought by the Tombstone Junction Railroad in Cumberland Falls Kentucky, along with a sister, in order to power their excursion train, but because of their extremely steep grade, they were not powerful enough, and were quickly replaced by a more powerful engine. If you look at it, the one rod has a spot on it where it rotted out, and E.J. Lavino cut out the bad section, and tacked together a new section out of some other type of metal, and just welded it into place. Also the spring rigging is collapsed, and the engine is leaning over to one side. The gauges in the cab are all missing, as well. The people at Colebrookedale are also not very knowledgeable in steam locomotive restoration, either. Nathaniel figured this, and he sold the engine to an owner of a private Military Museum down in Maryland.
Posted: Aug 22, 2015 @ 18:08:21 by Project 02
This locomotive has been moved to Boyertown, PA restoration has begun. It is owned by Project 02, not the Colebrookdale railroad as some have indicated.
Posted: Aug 3, 2015 @ 13:08:14 by Swade
KRM moved this locomotive to a crossing on their mainline where it was picked up by a truck. Locomotive officially gone from KRM grounds.
Posted: Jun 6, 2015 @ 24:06:32 by Tyler Fenderson
This Locomotive was recently purchased by Mr. Preston McEvoy of the Colebrookedale railroad in Boyertown,PA. will be leaving New Haven, KY this month of June!!!
Posted: Jun 21, 2006 @ 19:06:38 by Daniel Lindfors
This locomotive's sister, number 5001, is indeed at the California State RR Museum and is Operational! However, she has changed her identity to Granite Rock Co. #10. What a shame, the US Army should be on her with #5001 painted back on! <> (P.S. If anyone can give me information on where and what types of duties #5001 & 5002 worked on for the U.S. Army, please let me know at luckylindy@earthlink.net. Thanks, Dan)
Posted: Nov 25, 2002 @ 14:11:34 by M. Cole

This locomotive sat on a display track with a sister locomotive of its exact same build at the Tombstone Junction Amusment Park in Cumberland Falls, Kentucky until 1989.

The sister engine was sold to the California State Railroad museum and the parts used to rebuild an 0-6-0 of their own. This engine was moved the New Haven.

Posted: Sep 4, 2002 @ 05:09:48 by Doug Bailey
Locomotive is now stored at the Kentucky Railroad Museum and privately owned. Updated database, but ownership history needs updated.