Lake Superior & Ishpeming No. 24

The Lake Superior & Ishpeming RR No. 24 is a class SC-4 2-8-0 Consolidation type steam locomotive. It was built by Alco in 1910 for the Lake Superior & Ishpeming as #40 for one of its constituents, the Marquette & Southeastern Railway, which operated a sixty mile line between Big Bay and Lawson, MI.
In 1911, the Marquette & Southeastern merged with the Munising Railway, a short line between Munising and Princeton, MI.
The Munising, Marquette & South Eastern Railroad merged with the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad in 1923.
The LS&I renumbered the locomotive #24, and modernised it with a wider firebox in 1931. The locomotive was retired from service in 1939 and it was donated to the National Railroad Museum as their first steam locomotive to operate as a tourist engine.
Today it's still at the National Railroad Museum but the engine is now on static display.
==Trivia==
*When Flying Scotsman stayed at the museum for a month the drivers were bored and the museum didn't have any native volunteers to drive LS&I No. 24. So Scotsman's drivers volunteered to operate it themselves.Hinchcliffe, Richard, and Bill Wagner. Flying Scotsman in America: The 1970 Tour. 2023.
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