Forney Industries has produced many products such as the Fornair airplane, a central vacuum system and portable vacuum cleaner, auto generators, and battery chargers, but the best-known products are the different models of electric welders and welding supplies.

Forney engines were then sold off to buyers all over the world for mining, lumber, plantations, and short-haul freight and passengers.

It was left in storage inside a roundhouse in Chadron, Nebraska, until June 1958, when it was acquired by William B. Heckman, the owner of the Black Hills Central Railroad.

Crews from the C&NW and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) worked to move No.

In Hill City, South Dakota Governor Joe Foss performed a Golden Spike ceremony, in commemoration of the locomotive's arrival.

Since 1968, the only surviving C&NW steam engine to burn oil remains on display at Denver.

Aside from 444, 2 more of the R-1 Class 10 wheelers survive: 175 in Owosso Michigan, & 1385 at North Freedom Wisconsin which both of them are under restoration back to operational condition.

Denver & Rio Grande Western GP30 Number 3006 was built by EMD in 1962 & was equipped with 2,250 Horsepower.