United States Army No. 5002

United States Army No. 5002 is an S100 Class 0-6-0 steam locomotive built by H.K. Porter in 1942 for the United States Army's Transportation Corps.
The locomotive was assigned as a switch engine for the U.S. Navy yard in Philadelphia.
The engine was retired from service in 1948, and was later sold to EJ Lavino & Company for use in one of its yards in eastern Pennsylvania.
After 15 years working for EJ Lavino and a relatively brief static display at the Tombstone junction amusement park in Kentucky, she was sold to the Kentucky Railway Museum and stored there until 2015.
From 2015-2018, the locomotive was stored at the Colebrookdale Railroad. In 2018, 5002 went to Baraboo, WI for restoration.
From 2023, the locomotive went to Virginia to continue the restoration.
==History==
The United States Army No. 5002 was built by the H.K. Porter Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the third S100 class 0-6-0 tank engine to be delivered to the U.S. Army in August 1942. Designed by Col. Howard Hill, a former Southern Pacific steam locomotive design engineer, The class would go on to be one of the most numerous tank engine classes to be produced. Col. Hill's tank engine design was so austere that it was eventually was copied by builders around the world!
In the 1960's it was sold to Tombstone Junction.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*It was used from the Military Railroad Society.
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