Overview
The Virginia & Truckee Railroad (AAR reporting mark VT) was built in the late 1800s to serve the silver mining communities of Nevada.
History
V&T Engines: the McCloud # 18
Manufactured by: Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia
Date completed: October 1914, purchased in 1915
Formerly owned and operated by McCloud Railway Co., which ran it near Mount Shasta in Northern California.
Weight: 187,000 pounds, with water and fuel it weighs 258,700. It is a 282-wheel configuration Mikado.
Description: The locomotive is entirely black, except for its brass bell and silver letters on the side. Its original bill of sale still exists. It burns oil to make steam.
Source: Christopher DeWitt,
Supervisor of Restoration at the Nevada State Railroad Museum
