North Pacific Coast No. 21

North Pacific Coast Railroad No. 21 was a 4-4-0 "American" type built in 1901 at the North Pacific Coast Railroad's Sausalito Shops and it was named "Thomas-Stetson".
It was used for the North Pacific Coast Railroad hauling redwood lumber, local dairy and agricultural products, express and passengers (or basically, it was a mixed traffic engine/Dual-service locomotive).
The engine had insufficient adhesion weight and its oil burners were prone to damage due their proximity to its water tubes, and was unpopular with crews, despite No. 21 being named "Thomas-Stetson" its unusual appearance earning it the nickname of "The Freak". #21 was scrapped in 1905.
==Trivia==
*This special 4-4-0 was the first cab-forward locomotive and one of the first oil burners, as well as the first locomotive to use a marine boiler.
*It was a rebuild of NPCRR #5, which had been dismantled in 1897.
*This engine was used for Lexi in Thomas and Friends, and in real life, NPCRR No. 21 would (probably) be too big to run on British Rails due to the North American size of the locomotive itself.
== Gallery ==
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