28 is a preserved 2-8-0 “Consolidation” steam locomotive that was originally operated by the United States Army Transportation Corps.

After over twenty years of being stored, awaiting for restoration to come to fruition, the locomotive was fired up again in April 1996 as TSRR No.

As World War I broke out, railroads across the United States faced a larger demand for larger and more powerful locomotives to ship military equipment coast to coast, and railways across Europe also needed powerful locomotives to carry their own troops and military vehicles.

It would remain there into the early 1930s, when it would be transferred again to assist in the construction of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana.

In 1941, after completing its duties for the Army Corps of Engineers, it would be shipped to the Claiborne and Polk (C&P) Military Railroad in Louisiana and renumbered as C&P 20.

20 spent its time there as one of the locomotives that were used for short-distance freight trains between Claiborne and Fort Polk.

28 was subsequently used by the T&G to haul oil and lumber around the T&G system, particularly between Tremont, Winnfield, and West Monroe.

As the 1950s began to progress, however, the T&G became one of many American railroads that decided to dieselize early on, and by 1954, all of their steam locomotives were withdrawn.

28 to pull logging trains out of their Pineland mills and into local towns, and occasionally, it would be used for switching services.

28 became one of only three Pershing locomotives in the world that survived the scrapper's torch, and the only one left with a French-style cab.

101 at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Romanian Railways No.

[5] In November 1972, the SPLCO donated the derelict locomotive to Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, who was redeveloping the Texas State Railroad (TSRR), a former shortline that lies between Palestine and Rusk, as a tourist attraction.

Multiple parts of the locomotive had to be replaced, due to their poor mechanical condition, including the boiler, most of the running gear, the cowcatcher, and the tender.

28 was test fired and subsequently moved under its own power just in time for the official centennial of the Texas State Railroad itself.

300 would be decorated with deer antlers and tree branches for whenever it pulled the annual Polar Express train.

300 quickly became the TSRR's primary locomotive, as it remained the standard face of multiple advertisements for the railroad for the next several years.

300 in December 2013, right before it spent the 2014 operating season being painted black for one of its original identities, Southern Pine Lumber No.