This 0-6-0T (Tank) locomotive was built in 1930 as #12 for the American Bridge Company in Ambridge, PA, by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelpghia, PA. The engine weighs 142,000 lbs and has 44” drivers and
19” x 24” cylinders. Operating at a boiler pressure of 190 psi, it delivered 31,795 lbs tractive effort.
American Bridge was founded in 1900 by consolidation of twenty eight of the largest steel fabricators in the US. In 1902, it became a subsidiary of United States Steel as part of the Steel Trust consolidation.
In 1943, #12 was sold to the dealer Birmingham Rail & Locomotive Co., in Pittsburgh, PA, and then on to the Duquesne Slag Products Co., in Pittsburgh, PA, where it was renumbered #69 and was used to haul slag for concrete, ballast, road building materials, roofing and other industrial products.
It was donated to the Pennsylvania Railway Museum in Scranton, PA, in 1964 and, some time later was acquired by the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum. It is on display at the historic Boca Raton Rail Depot on S Dixie Highway.
Above, #69 is on display with Atlantic Coast Line steel cupola caboose #0711.
The caboose was built at the ACL's Waycross Shops in 1964. It was retired from service in 1983 and donated to
the Baco Raton Historical Society in 1986.
