1918 BC&G #14 Steam Locomotive - Gaithersburg MD - Locomotives on Waymarking.com

This locomotive is part of the display at the Gaithersburg History Park which includes the historic train station, the Freight House community museum and other train cars.

Steam Engine #14 was built by Alco Schenectady in 1916 as #59309. By 1950, it and a sister Engine #13 were purchased from the Kelly's Creek and Northwestern Railroad by the Buffalo Creek and Gauley RR of West Virginia, even though many other railroads were beginning to move to diesel. A small railroad, it was kept busy as a subsidiary of Elk River Coal & Lumber Company. In 1960, the BC&G was the largest all-steam railroad in the US. As the company operations faded, the mine, lumber company and railroads were sold off with the last steam train making its last run in 1963.
A simple search on the internet will bring you to excellent histories of the BC&G RR and Engine #14. One good site even has a photo of #14 involved in a 1956 wreck:
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