Here’s our 2022 steam locomotive list. As 2021 may be the best so far in the 21st century to be a steam locomotive enthusiast, 2022 is looking good too!
A Big Boy is running on Union Pacific’s main lines, the last Baldwin steam locomotive built is flexing its articulated muscles on a mountain railroad, and at least six 4-8-4s are in steam from coast to coast with three more under restoration. Newly renovated engines continue to emerge.
According to a Trains magazine survey, about 153 steam locomotives operate in the U.S. in a public venue at least one day each year. These locomotives are at least 2-foot gauge, have a history, or are a replica of historical significance. The figure is a decrease from the first such survey made in 2008, when Trains placed the census at 190 steam locomotives. Here’s the list.
Trains’ 2022 steam locomotive list
Total: 153
Methodology:
•Locomotives of 2-foot gauge and up.
•Must run in a public venue at least 1 day per year or be capable of doing so.
•Must have had some sort of prior life in regular freight or passenger service before preservation or be a replica of national significance.
Alabama – 0
Alaska – 2
•Alaska Railroad 0-4-0T No. 1 coal narrow 1899
•White Pass & Yukon 2-8-2 No. 73 oil narrow 1947
Arkansas – 0
Arizona – 1
•Grand Canyon Railway 2-8-2 No. 4960 oil standard 1923
California steam locomotive list – 19
•Disneyland Railroad No. 3 2-4-4T (Baldwin 1894)
•Disneyland Railroad No. 4 2-4-0 (Baldwin 1925)
•Disneyland Railroad No. 5 2-4-4T (Baldwin 1902)
•Eastern California Museum’s Southern Pacific 4-6-0 No. 18 oil narrow 1911
•Knott’s Berry Farm 2-8-0 No. 340 oil narrow 1899
•Niles Canyon Railway’s Clover Valley 2-6-6-2T No. 4 oil standard 1924
•Niles Canyon Railway 2-4-4-2 “Skookum” No. 7 oil standard 1909
•Niles Canyon Railway’s Robert Dollar 2-6-2T No. 3 oil standard 1927
•Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad/Stathi Pappas 0-4-0T No. 2 oil standard 1909
•Poway Midland 0-4-0 No. 3 oil standard 1907
•San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society’s ATSF 4-8-4 No. 3751 oil standard 1927
•Sierra Railway 2-8-0 No. 28 oil standard 1922 oil standard
•Roaring Camp & Big Trees 0-4-2T No. 1 oil narrow
•Roaring Camp & Big Trees 2-truck Heisler Tuolomie oil narrow
•Roaring Camp & Big Trees 2-Truck Shay Dixiana oil narrrow
•Roots of Motive Power 2 Truck Heisler No. 1 oil standard
•Roots of Motive Power 2-6-2T No. 1 oil standard
•Yosemite Sugar Pine three truck Shay No. 10 oil narrow
•Yosemite Sugar Pine three truck Shay No. 15 oil narrow
Colorado steam locomotive list – 16
•Cripple Creek & Victor 0-4-4-0 No. 1 coal narrow
•Cripple Creek & Victor 0-4-0T No. 2 coal narrow
•Cripple Creek & Victor 0-4-0 No. 3 coal narrow
•Colorado Railroad Museum’s Rio Grande 2-8-2 No. 491 coal narrow
•Colorado Railroad Museum’s Rio Grande 2-8-0 No. 346 coal narrow
•Colorado Railroad Museum’s Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 No. 20 coal narrow
•Durango & Silverton 2-8-2s Nos. 473, 476, 480, 481, 486, 493 //// 2 coal 4 oil narrow
•Durango Railroad Historical Society’s Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 No. 315/425 coal narrow
•Georgetown Loop 2-8-0 No. 40 oil narrow
•Georgetown Loop 2-8-0 No. 111 oil narrow
•South Park Rail Society 2-6-2 No. 4 oil narrow
Connecticut — 3
•Connecticut Antique Machinery Association Hawaii Railway 2-4-2 No. 5
•Valley Railroad 2-8-2s Nos. 40 and 3025 coal standard
Delaware – 1
•Wilmington & Western 0-6-0 No. 58 coal standard
Florida – 1
•U.S. Sugar 4-6-2 No. 148 oil standard 1920s
Georgia – 1
•Georgia Museum of Agriculture 0-4-0T No. 2
Hawaii – 2
•Grove Farm Museum 2-4-0T “Paulo” (Hohenzollern, 1887) and 0-6-2T “Wainiha” (Baldwin, 1915)
Illinois -2
•Illinois Railway Museum’s Frisco 2-10-0 No. 1630 coal standard
•Illinois Railway Museum’s J. Neils Lumber 3-truck Shay No. 5 coal standard
Indiana – 5
•Hesston Steam Museum 2-6-0 No. 2 coal standard
•Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society’s Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 coal standard 1944
•Gramling Locomotive Works’ Jeddo Coal 0-4-0T No. 85 coal standard
•Gramling Locomotive Works’ Lehigh Coal 0-6-0T No. 126 coal standard
•Privately-owned Bock Lumber Co. 0-4-4T No. 1 at Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum standard
Iowa -3
•Iowa Interstate 2-10-2 No. 6988
•Midwest Central 2-6-0 No. 6
•Midwest Central’s Westside Lumber Co. 3-truck Shay No. 9 oil narrow
Kansas – 1
•Abilene & Smokey Valley Railroad’s Santa Fe 4-6-2 No. 3415 oil standard
Kentucky – 0
Louisiana – 0
Maine – 4
•Boothbay Railway Museum 0-4-0T No. 6 (Henschel 1934)
•Wiscassett Waterville & Farmington 0-4-4T No. 9
•Maine Narrow Gauge Museum B&SR No. 7
•Maine Narrow Gauge’s Monson 0-4-4T No. 3
Maryland – 1
•Western Maryland Scenic 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 coal standard 1949
Massachusetts – 1
•Edaville 0-4-0 No. 11
Michigan – 7
•Buckley Old Engine Show’s Army 0-4-0T
•Henry Ford’s 0-6-4T No. 3 Torch Lake (oldest operating locomotive in U.S. 1873)
•Henry Ford’s Detroit & Lima Northern 4-4-0 No. 7
•Huckleberry Railroad 4-6-0 No. 2
•Pere Marquette 2-8-4 No. 1225 coal standard 1940s
•Little River 0-4-0T No. 1
•Little River 4-6-2 No. 110 coal/wood standard 1911
Minnesota – 4
•Lake Region Steam Threshers 0-4-0T No. 2
•Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 coal standard 1944
•Western Minnesota Steam Thresher’s Soo Line 0-6-0 No. 353
•Western Minnesota Steam Thresher’s 0-4-0 No. 3
Missouri – 4
•Silver Dollar City 0-4-0T No. 14
•Silver Dollar City 0-4-0T No. 43
•Silver Dollar City 0-4-0T No. 76
•Silver Dollar City 0-4-0 No. 504
Mississippi – 0
Montana -0
Nebraska – 1
•Henry Doorly Zoo’s 30-inch Austrian 0-6-2T
Nevada – 7
•Dan Markoff’s Eureka & Palisade 4-4-0 No. 4 wood narrow
•Nevada Northern 2-8-0 No. 81 coal standard 1917
•Nevada Northern 2-8-0 No. 93 coal standard 1909
•Nevada State Railroad Museum 4-6-0 Glenbrook
•Nevada State Railroad Museum’s Virginia & Truckee 4-4-0 No. 22 Inyo
•Nevada State Railroad Museum’s Virginia & Truckee 4-6-0 No. 25
•Virginia & Truckee 2-8-0 No. 29 oil standard
New Hampshire – 4
•Conway Scenic 0-6-0 No. 7420 coal standard
•Mount Washington Cog 0-4-4-0 Nos. 2, 6 & 9
New Jersey – 2
•Black River & Western 2-8-0 No. 60 coal standard
•SMS 0-6-0 No. 9 coal standard
New Mexico — 7
•New Mexico Steam Locomotive & Railroad Historical Society’s ATSF 4-8-4 No. 2926 oil standard 1940s
•Cumbres & Toltec Scenic 2-8-2s Nos. 463, 484, 487, 488, 489 //4 coal 1 oil narrow 1920s
•Cumbres & Toltec’s Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 No. 168 coal narrow
New York – 1
•Scott Symans American Viscose 0-4-0T No. 6
North Carolina – 3
•Great Smoky Mountains Railway 2-8-0 No. 1702 oil standard 1940s
•Tweetsie 4-6-0 No. 12 coal narrow
•Tweetsie 2-8-2 No. 190 coal narrow
North Dakota – 0
Oklahoma – 0
Ohio – 7
•Cedar Point & Lake Erie No. 1 2-4-0
•Cedar Point & Lake Erie No. 4 2-4-0
•Cedar Point & Lake Erie No. 5 2-4-0
•Cedar Point & Lake Erie No. 22 2-4-0
•Hocking Valley 0-6-0 No. 3 coal standard
•Age of Steam’s Morehead & North Fork 0-6-0 No. 12 coal standard
•Youngstown Steel Heritage 0-4-0T No. 58 coal narrow
Oregon – 8
•City of Prineville’s Mount Emily 3-truck Shay No. 1 oil standard
•Oregon Coast Scenic’s Craig Mountain Lumber 2-truck Heisler No. 3 oil standard
•Oregon Coast Scenic’s McCloud River Railway 2-6-2 No. 25 oil standard
•Oregon Coast Scenic’s Polson 2-8-2 No. 2 oil standard
•Albany & Eastern’s Santa Maria Valley 2-6-2 No. 205 oil standard 1920s
•Sumpter Valley 2-8-2 No. 19 oil narrow
•Sumpter Valley’s W.H. Eccles 2-truck Heisler No. 3 wood narrow
vOregon Railroad Heritage’s Southern Pacific 4-8-4 No. 4449 oil standard 1941
Pennsylvania steam locomotive list – 13
•Bucksgahuda & Western 0-4-0T No. 1
•Strasburg 4-8-0 No. 475, 2-6-0 No. 89, 2-10-0 No. 90 coal standard
•New Hope & Ivyland 2-8-0 No. 40 coal standard
•Everett 2-6-0 No. 11 coal standard
•Pioneer Tunnel 0-4-0T No. 1
•Railway Restoration’s Central of New Jersey 0-6-0 No. 113 coal standard
•Reading & Northern 4-6-2 No. 425 coal standard
•Star Barn’s 4-4-0 No. 63 oil standard
•Steamtown’s Baldwin plant switcher 0-6-0 No. 26 coal standard
•Steam into History’s Northern Central 4-4-0 No. 17 York oil standard
•Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association’s Pennsylvania Railroad 0-6-0 No. 643 coal standard
South Carolina – 0
South Dakota – 3
•Black Hills Central 2-6-6-2Ts Nos. 108 and 110 oil standard
•Prairie Village 0-6-0 No. 29
Tennessee – 4
•Southern 2-8-0 No. 630 coal standard 1904
•Southern 2-8-2 No. 4501 coal standard 1911
•Dollywood 2-8-2s No. 70 and 192
Texas – 3
•Six Flags Texas 2-4-2 No. 2
•Six Flags Texas 2-4-2 No. 2
•Texas State Railroad 2-8-0 No. 30 oil standard
Utah – 2
•U.S. National Park Service replica of Union Pacific 4-4-0 No. 119 coal standard 1970s
•U.S. National Park Service replica of Central Pacific 4-4-0 Jupiter wood standard 1970s
Vermont – 0
Virginia – 1
•Virginia Museum of Transportation’s Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 coal standard 1950
Washington State – 1
•Northwestern Railway Museum’s Northern Pacific 0-6-0 No. 924
Wisconsin – 2
•Soo Line 2-8-2 No. 1003 coal standard
•Rock River Threshers 0-4-0 No. 7
West Virginia – 6
•Cass Scenic Railroad Shays Nos. 2, 4, 5, and 11 coal standard 1905,
•Cass Scenic Railroad Climax 9 coal standard 1919
•Cass Scenic Railroad Heisler 6 coal standard
Wyoming – 2
•Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844 oil standard 1944
•Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 oil standard 1941
