Seaboard Air Line No. 544

Category:Steam locomotives
Category:Locomotives
Category:Tender locomotives
Category:2-10-0 locomotives
Category:2-10-0 locomotives
Category:2-10-0 steam locomotives
Category:Ten-coupled locomotives
Category:Standard gauge locomotives
Category:Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Category:4 foot 8 1⁄2 inch gauge
Category:Seaboard Air Line Railway
Category:SAL locomotives
Category:Russian Decapods
Seaboard Air Line No. 544 is a Class Ye "Decapod" 2-10-0 type steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company in March 1918. This locomotive was one of many American engines ordered by the Russian Ministry of Railways but it like so many others of the class was never delivered due to the Revolution of 1917. 
It was instead employed on branch lines throughout the Seaboard system, being based in North Carolina at Hamlet and Raleigh depots until the early 1950s. It then spent a few years working on the Gainesville Midland Railroad, a Seaboard subsidiary in Georgia. 
No. 544 was retired from service in 1959 and was spared from scrapping when it was placed on display in Atlanta, Georgia in 1965. It was later sold to the North Carolina Railroad Company in 1980, which then donated the locomotive to the State of North Carolina. No. 544 was cosmetically restored in 1996 for display in the Robert Julian Roundhouse at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer where it still remains to this day.
Category:North Carolina Transportation Museum engines