Wabash No. 534 is a class B-7 an 0-6-0 type steam locomotive that was built as a switcher in 1906 by Alco for the Wabash Railroad under the serial number of #41174.
While she simmered and shuttled away between Grand Street Station and other terminals on the Wabash throughout her career, No. 534 spent its last few years serving the steel mills on Taylor Street. Afterwards it was sold to the Lake Erie & Fort Wayne Railroad and renumbered as engine No 1. In 1984, it was donated for preservation.
The locomotive is now on static display Indiana at the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society who are in the process of cosmetically restoring the engine and rebuilding its tender.
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- No. 534 is one of the oldest steam locomotive in the State of Indiana.
- No. 534 is one of two surviving steam locomotives from the Wabash Railroad. The other survivor is No. 573 which is on display at the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri.
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