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 Glover locomotive in downtown Marietta

Marietta's Steam Locomotive

This narrow-gauge (36-inch) 2-6-0, built in 1916 by Glover Machine Works of Marietta, sits across the tracks from Marietta’s old passenger depot. Constructed as Glover No. 81421, it was sold to the Coulbourn Bros. Lumber Company of Suffolk, Virginia, which operated it as No. 4. In 1923 it was returned to Glover. It was restored in 1991-92.

(For more information on this engine and the company that built it, see Richard L. Hillman’s book Glover Steam Locomotives; The South’s Last Steam Builder, published in 1996 by Heimburger House Publishing of Forest Park, Illinois.)

 


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