Rahway Valley No. 9

Type: 0-6-0

Builder: Altoona Machine Shops (PRR), Altoona, PA

Built: November 1893

Construction No.: 1901

Previous Owner(s): Pennsylvania Railroad, No. 506, Class B-4

Acquired From: General Equipment Co., Paterson, NJ

Acquired Date: December 1917

Purchase Price:  Unknown

Disposition: Retired 1920. Traded to General Equipment Co., along with No. 10, in October 1922 for No. 11. Sold to Jefferson Construction Co., New Orleans, LA, No. 11. Sold to Seaboard Air Line, No. 124, in 1924. Scrapped, May 1930.

Notes: Rail Data Exchange states that locomotive was transferred to General Equipment Co. in December 1917 and sold to RV in January 1918. Reconstructed tax valuation records from 1928 indicate that No. 9 was purchased in the tax year ended 12/31/1918, for $18,166.42. One locomotive, likely No. 7, was traded into General Equipment Co. and applied towards the purchase of No. 9. Credit was for $4,500.00.

No. 9 had its tender replaced while on the RV. A picture of No. 9, taken at the General Equipment Co. yard in Paterson, NJ, shows it with a tender that was used with No. 11.