New York Central 3001

New York Central 3001 is a preserved steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement, built in October 1940 by the American Locomotive Company at Schenectady, New York, for the New York Central Railroad. The railroad called its 4-8-2 engines Mohawks after the river beside its Water Level Route, though other roads used the name Mountain. No. 3001 belongs to the L-3a class and was designed for dual service, hauling both freight and passenger trains until it was retired in February 1957. It did not go to the scrapper. It passed to the Texas and Pacific Railway, ran as T&P No. 909 for display, and was donated to a railroad museum in Dallas, then moved in the 1980s to a museum in Elkhart, Indiana. It is the largest modern mainline New York Central steam locomotive still in existence and one of two surviving Mohawks. Several restoration attempts failed, and in October 2024 the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society announced plans to return it to operating condition.