Train Engine 556

Locomotive number five hundred fifty-six sits on a permanent stretch of track within Delaney Park. This steam engine is a two-eight-zero Consolidation type, distinguished by a squat design intended to clear tight tunnels and bridges during wartime. Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in nineteen forty-three, it belongs to the S-one-sixty class of engines, a series originally manufactured for the United States Army Transportation Corps to serve in Europe and Africa.