It served the railroad by pulling coal and lumber trains throughout Clay County, West Virginia until it was retired in 1965.

4 was restored to operating condition by the Quakertown and Eastern Railroad for excursion service in Pennsylvania, and it made its way to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in 1978.

4 was subsequently used to pull tourist trains across the museum's property in Spencer, North Carolina from when its multi-year overhaul was completed in 1986 to when its flue time expired in 2001.

Bradley made a deal with Baldwin, and the locomotive was instead sold to the Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad (BC&G).

After arriving in Clay County, West Virginia, the locomotive was modified with the BC&G's own features; it was renumbered to 4, it was converted to burn coal, the headlight was moved from the top to the center of the smokebox door, and a cylindrical air tank was installed on the pilot.

4 was first assigned to haul coal and lumber between Widen, Swandale, and Dundon, where the trains it pulled would often interchange with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

4 "Ol' Slobber Face", since moisture was constantly falling from the smokestack, resulting in most of the smokebox area to be continuously wet while operational.

4 was sold along with the Q&E’s Ex-Reading passenger car fleet to Carter-Cash Enterprises, a company owned by famous Country singer Johnny Cash.

Carter-Cash had possible plans to create a tourist attraction in southwest Virginia near the former home of the Carter Family of Country Music Fame.

4 and the SVSR’s passenger car fleet, and they moved them to their museum grounds in Spencer, North Carolina with the hopes of using them for their own tourist operations.

604 was steamed up once again, and the NCTM began using it to pull their three-mile on-site tourist trains alongside Graham County Railroad Shay No.

[9] Some further modifications were also made to it during the early 1990s; the number font on the tender was changed, the color of the smokebox was darkened, and the centered headlight was lowered by a few inches.

[11] Its last run for the museum occurred in November 2001 before it was sidelined to receive an overhaul as required by new regulations of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).

604 for $150,000 from the NCTM's foundation with the goal of restoring it for operational purposes on their own trackage in West Virginia in its original BC&G livery.

Volunteers have made thickness measurements on the area of the boiler that needed repair work, and they were beginning to come up with a plan of action to complete the restoration.

Although they have inspected the running gear, the frame, and the tender, which were all deemed to be in good condition, the firebox and both flue sheets in the boiler needed to either be repaired or to be replaced, in order to meet FRA standards.

Once the locomotive is operational again, it will be renumbered back to 4, and it will pull the fifteen-mile excursion trains between Cass and Durbin, West Virginia.