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Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad 425 is a 4-6-2 light "Pacific" type steam locomotive originally built in 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad. After the GM&N was consolidated into the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio in 1940, the locomotive was renumbered No. 580 and served in passenger service before being retired in 1950. The locomotive was currently owned and operated by the Reading & Northern, based out of Port Clinton, Pennsylvania in excursion service.
The 21st Century Steam program was a program conducted by the Norfolk Southern Railway from 2011 to 2015, featuring four classic steam locomotives pulling passenger excursions along Norfolk Southern rails in the eastern United States. The last train was to be Southern 4501's Piedmont Limited excursion trip from Atlanta, Georgia, to Toccoa, Georgia, but cancelled on October 1 due to Hurricane Joaquin.
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- ↑ "Knoxville, Slow & Easy | Locomotives".
- ↑ Craft, John (July 3, 2010). "Southern 2-8-0 154 makes its debut". SteamCentral. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ↑ Brown, Fred (August 2, 2013). "Bell taken from Old No. 154 engine". Knoxville News Sentinel . Retrieved November 22, 2016.
- ↑ Beecken, Stephanie (January 20, 2015). "Missing bell returned to Knoxville's Three Rivers Rambler tourist train". WATE-TV . Archived from the original on November 22, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
