Dardanelle & Russellville No. 9

The Dardanelle & Russellville No. 9 is a "Mogul" type (2-6-0) steam locomotive was built by Baldwin in 1884 as New Orleans & North Eastern #232.
The engine received a new wagon-top boiler when rebuilt in 1904 and was sold in 1917 to Birmingham Rail & Locomotive Co., a surplus equipment dealer. They, in turn, sold it to the Dardanelle & Russellville where the locomotive was renumbered #9, serving the Arkansas shortline until 1963, when it was purchased by Elliott Donnelley of North Freedom.
Elliott Donnelley donated #9 to the Mid-Continent Railway museum in 1969, and it was the main duty engine at the museum in the 1960s and 1970s until it was sidelined because of a leaking tender.
It returned to service in 1991 for one summer with a temporary tender but, since then, has not steamed.
Today its still at the Mid-Continent Railway museum but it is now a static display.
==Trivia==
*No. 9 is the oldest locomotive in the museum's collection.
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