17

Builder: Vulcan Iron Works

Type: 0-4-0T Steam Locomotive

Built: April 1941

Builder's Number: 4309
Notes:  This Steam locomotive carries its fuel and water supplies on board, not in a separate tender.  Most of this type of locomotive were used in industrial or railroad switching service due to their small size.  See www.engine17.org for more info on # 17.

71

Builder: General Electric

Type: 80 Ton diesel

Built: March 1945

Builder's Number: 27994

Notes:  Typical of the Diesel-Electric locomotives sold to small railroads and industries across North America.  This GE 80 tonner is an example of a very successful locomotive family.  Never a candidate for most beautiful locomotive, nor the fastest, these GE center-cabs were popular due to their rugged construction and pure utilitarian design.

 399 

Builder: General Electric

Type: 65 Ton diesel

Built: March 1943

Builder's Number:

Notes:  This 65 ton GE centercab was acquired from DoD surplus.
U.S. Navy # 65-00399 Theodore, AL - Naval Ammunition Magazine
U.S. Marine Corps # 289330 - Camp LeJeune, NC

 1686 

Builder: General Electric

Type: 80 Ton diesel

Built: March 1953

Builder's Number: 31818

Notes:  Except for having been built eight years apart, 1686 is virtually identical to locomotive 71.  The longevity and success of this locomotive design owes to the fact that it was both practical and flexible.

67

Builder: General Electric

Type: 45 Ton diesel

Built: 1941

Builder's Number: 15260

Notes:  A smaller GE center-cab design, this no-frills locomotive was common to industries and short line railroads for motive power and switching duty.  This locomotive has only one traction motor per truck and uses side rods to transfer power to the other axle.

70

Builder: Whitcomb

Type: 45 Ton diesel

Built: April 1941

Builder's Number: 60298

Notes: This locomotive is similar in appearance to the GE center-cabs with some design elements common to industrial locomotives of its era. This locomotive has only one traction motor per truck and uses side rods to transfer power to the other axle.

75

Builder:
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton

Type: 80 Ton diesel

Built: April 1947

Builder's Number: 60739

Notes: A Whitcomb design, this engine was built by the resulting merger of the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Lima and Hamilton Crane companies. This engine operated at New York Shipbuilding in Camden, NJ possibly at the same time as our steam locomotive 17.

10

Builder: General Electric

Type: 25 Ton diesel

Built: April 1950

Builder's Number: 30590

Notes:  This GE end-cab is an example of a very small, no-frills locomotive design used by many industrial and short line railroads. The smallest of the NHVRy locomotives, it has only one powered axle(traction motor), and uses a chain-drive to transmit power to the other axle.

 335  Norfolk Southern wood sided Caboose

 308  Aberdeen & Rockfish Caboose

 5228  Seaboard Caboose

 100 & 101 Covered open-air excursion passenger cars

200

Builder:
 Magor Car Co.

Type: 12 wheel  100 ton cap. flat car

Built: April 1953

Builder's Number: 38064

Notes: The New Hope Valley Railway acquired three DoDX 12 wheel flat cars from Camp Lejune in the 1990s.  In 2006 one of these flat cars was transformed into our newest open-air excursion car.  See more on what it takes to transform one of these cars here.

188

Builder:  Bethlehem Steel

Type: Railway Post Office & Baggage car

Built: 1922

Builder's Number:

Notes:  

This heavyweight dutifully served the Southern Railway system for many years.  It was donated to the East Carolina Chapter NRHS by Southern in the '70s.  The RPO portion has been painstakingly restored and the car is open as an exhibit during operating days to the public. 

8707

Builder:  Pullman

Type: Troop Transport

Built:

Builder's Number:

Notes:  

 This car currently serves as our gift shop and displays a collection of railroad memorabilia and artifacts.

 9385  Tank car 10,000gal

 

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