CP&W 117

Locomotive 117 was built in 1925 to the 4 ft gauge Lehigh Valley Coal Company as their primary switcher. She was later transferred to the Jeddo Coal Co. In 1958 the locomotive was transferred to the newly opened Carrol Park & Western RR in Bloomsburg PA. The drab black paint was replaced with green and red to represent an engine used in the Old West. The locomotive and matching cars were sold off in 1972 after the CP&W was abandoned. The engine was put on display in a New Jersey theme park in hopes of getting it running again. That dream never fermented, and in 2000 the locomotive and two cars were tranferred to the New Jersey Museum of Transportation (Pine Creek Railroad) in Wall Twp. NJ. Because the Pine Creek is a 3 ft gauge railroad, the locomotive may never see active service again, but the locomotive has been restored in its original Lehigh Valley Coal Co. paint, and the two CP&W cars are also cosmetically restored.
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:Locomotives
Category:Built in 1925
Category:0-4-0 steam locomotives
Category:0-4-0 locomotives
Category:Four-coupled locomotives
Category:American locomotives
Category:Switcher locomotives