Print, photographic. 09/1908. DL&W RR Locomotive No. 508, A 2-6-0 "Mogul," on turntable. engineer's side. "American/Locomotive Company/405534/Schenectady Works/September 1908" on builder's plate. "Lackawanna" on tender. image peeled lower right, "September/1908" written in ink. Hole near "a" on tender. Had been framed, tack holes around edges.

From the Museum Collection: Print, photographic. 09/1908. DL&W RR Locomotive No. 508, A 2-6-0 "Mogul," on turntable. engineer's side. "American/Locomotive Company/405534/Schenectady Works/September 1908" on builder's plate. "Lackawanna" on tender. image peeled lower right, "September/1908" written in ink. Hole near "a" on tender. Had been framed, tack holes around edges. From the collection of Linford Bartholomew, a longtime employee of the DL&W Railroad in many positions including flagman, brakeman, and baggage man. He retired in 1938. In 1908 the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) purchased 2-6-0 Locomotive No. 565 from the Schenectady Locomotive Works, equipped by its builder with Walschaert valve gear (Walschaerts valve gear was invented around the same time as Stephenson valve gear but did not become popular until the late 1800's. After that it became the most popular valve gear on steam locomotives due to the advantage of being located completely outside the wheels and thus easier to maintain). It was part of a series of 2-6-0 locomotives apparently purchased to replace earlier locomotives that the company was scrapping. By December 31, 1913, No. 565 operated as one of 770 locomotives on the railroad, which had 925 passenger train cars, 28,711 freight cars, and 836 work cars, on over 985.06 miles of railroad. At some point, the DL&W replaced the slide valves with a piston valve conversion and gave No. 565 a superheater. It then served the Lackawanna for 28 more years. In 1936, the company sold the locomotive to the Dansville & Mount Morris Railroad (D&MM), a 9-mile short line railroad operating between Dansville and Groveland in New York. The D&MM continued to operate the No. 565 for 25 years. No. 565 was repaired in 1956, but in 1961 it was sold to the Black River & Western Railroad, a small tourist railroad operating between Ringoes and Flemington, New Jersey. It was sold again in 1968, then in 1982, 1983, and finally in December 1985, No. 565 was sold to the Steamtown Foundation at Scranton. Locomotive No. 565 is the only motive power at Scranton that is on its "home railroad," the DL&W. Thousands of locomotives of this type once operated in the United States, but the No. 565 is one of only about 50 specimens of the type that survive nationwide.

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