| Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in October of 1905 with construction number #26530, #21, like sister #20, spent it's whole life working on the Danville & Western Railway's main line from Stokesland, Virginia, to Staurt, Virginia, for over forty years until the eventual dieselisation of the D&W and absorption into the Southern Railway. After the Southern Railway financed American Locomotive Company RS-2s were introduced on the road in the late 1940's, the remaining few steam locomotives left on the roster were probably transferred over to the Carolina & North-Western Railway which was also a Southern Railway subsidiary. Photographs exist of this locomotive working on the Carolina & North-Western's lines as late as 1951. This photograph was probably taken in the Southern Railway's Dundee Shops in Northern Danville, Virginia. |