| Resting at the Grand Canyon Lodge is GCRY 2-8-0 #18 . Built in February of 1910 as Lake Superior & Ishpheming #11 (renumbered to 18 in 1924), it served the LS&I, then the -Marquette & Huron Mountain tourist train before reaching the Grand Canyon Rwy. After leading tourist trains to the Grand Canyon for nearly 18 years, it was acquired by the Mount Hood Railroad in Oregon in 2007, who then in turn sold it to the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad (SLRG) in Colorado. Between 2008 and 2013, No. 18 pulled the SLRG’s tourist trains, but after the railroad filed for bankruptcy, No. 18 was put under receivership. In 2021, the locomotive was purchased by the Maguire Foundation, who reached an agreement with the Colebrookdale Railroad to eventually operate the locomotive on their line in Pennsylvania. This is a Jim Lockart color slide. |