The Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway was a common carrier incorporated on January 24, 1894.
The railway built from a connection with the Southern Pacific Railroad at Bowie, Arizona (known as Teviston until 1908), and continued northwest for 125.75 miles to its terminus at the mining town of Globe, Arizona.
The locomotive was purchased in 1894, by which time it had been substantially rebuilt, bearing little resemblance to its original form.
The Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway was incorporated on January 24, 1894.
Southern Pacific merged the GVG&N with another subsidiary, the Arizona Eastern Railway, ending its existence as separate entity on February 1, 1910.