Southern No. 385

Southern No. 385 is a class H-4 2-8-0 steam locomotive. It was built in November 1907 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Southern Railway, and used in freight service.
In 1952, it was sold to the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway at Piney River, VA, and re-numbered #6. In 1963, it was sold to the Morris County Central Railroad Inc. - based at Whippany, NJ - where it regained its old number. In 1974, it was moved to Newfoundland, NJ, and years later in 1982, it was sold to the Susquehanna for use as an excursion engine, however that never happened. After years of storage 385 was donated to the Bergen County Vocational and Technical Institute in Hackensack, NJ. In 1999, new directors at the school led to the cancellation of the stationary steam course, plans were drawn up to scrap 385. Joseph Supor Sr., the owner of the trucking company that brought 385 to the school, had become aware of this, within hours of her scrapping. Supor had moved 385 to his trucking company headquarters in Harrison, NJ before it was donated to the Whippany Railway Museum in 2007 by Jospeh Supor Jr.
It is now on static display at the Whippany Railway Museum.
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