| The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad ordered two NW2 diesel locomotives in 1946, numbering them 80 and 81. Locomotive 81 pulled both passenger and freight trains through 1954. Number 81 was sold to the P.H. Glatfelter Paper Company in the 1980s, where it was used at their Spring Grove, Pennsylvania plant. In 1997, Glatfelter donated the locomotive to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Once the engine was delivered to the Museum by Conrail and the Strasburg Railroad, our Society members prepared the locomotive for painting and the Society then donated funds to purchase the paint. The Railroad itself provided for the lettering of the locomotive in the original scheme. The Museum held a Dedication Ceremony on Saturday, June 27, 1998 in the Museum Yard. |