Sumter & Choctaw No. 102

Sumter & Choctaw No. 102 is a Class 12-32 ¼ E Mikado type (2-8-2) steam locomotive built by Baldwin in 1924 for the Sumter & Choctaw Railroad.
The Sumter & Choctaw was owned by the Allison Lumber Company in Bellamy, AL, serving the two namesake counties in western Alabama. Two Baldwin steam locomotives, one of which was #102, operated on the line.
It was donated to the National Railroad museum in 1964 when it was retired.
In 1988, the museum sent the locomotive to the Green Bay & Western Norwood roundhouse, where it spent nearly eighteen months being rebuilt with a diesel engine from an old center cab switcher fitted to the tender so that it can haul trains, although not in steam.
Today it's still at the National Railroad Museum. It's usually a Static Display but from time to time the museum would bring it out to haul the museum's train.
==Trivia==
*No. 102 was a coal burner.
*It usually has the privilege of hauling the museum's Polar Express train at Christmas
*The other Sumter & Choctaw Baldwin, #103, is preserved at the Railroad Museum of New England in Tomaston, CT.
*The museum is what politely refer the locomotive to known as a "hybrid locomotive" because the steam locomotive is diesel-powered.
**Because the locomotive was converted to diesel when the tender was rebuilt with a diesel engine to look like the tender it's an inexpensive, very economical way to have the train ride look good without the phenomenal cost of live steam operations.
*The diesel tender used to be lettered "National Railroad Museum" but as of today the lettering on the tender was removed.
== Gallery ==
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