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black beauty

Built by baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, USA. With Wheel arrangement 4-6-2 it weighs around 102.4 tonnes. The pride of the fleet, the bullet nosed WP locomotives were the mainstay of BG passenger traffic operations untill 1995 when they finally retired. This exhibit is one of the 16 prototypes which were received from USA before regular production started at CLW.

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