The Outer Harbor Terminal Co. No. 2 is an 0-6-0 switcher was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works (later part of Alco) in 1887 for the AT&SF as #590.
In 1893, it was sent to the Southern California Railway where the locomotive was renumbered #40 then In 1900, it was transferred back to the Santa Fe and renumbered #2285.
In 1906, the Santa Fe took over the Southern California Harbor Dock & Wharf Company and renumbered the locomotive #2.
The locomotive worked the next forty-five years along the docks in San Pedro, California until it was retired in 1955 and donated to the Southern California Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's collection where it is seen today on static display.
Trivia[]
- In 1909, the Union Oil Company bought the railroad and renamed it the Outer Harbor Terminal Railway Company.
- At the time it retired, after sixty-eight years, #2 was reputed to be the oldest operating locomotive in the US.