Norfolk and Western 475

Norfolk and Western 475 is a 4-8-0 steam locomotive of the type called a Twelve-wheeler, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in June 1906 as part of the first order for the Norfolk and Western Railway's M class. It was the 101st of 125 M class engines and was first used on freight trains on the main line before being moved in the 1920s to short mixed trains on the Blacksburg Branch. The railway retired it in 1959, and it then passed through several owners in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Iowa until the Strasburg Rail Road bought it in 1991 and restored it over two years. Since 1993 it has hauled tourist trains in Pennsylvania Dutch country and has been the only operating 4-8-0 in North America. It appeared in the 2000 film Thomas and the Magic Railroad, and in 2022 it was repaired quickly after a collision with an excavator parked on a siding.