Les Beckman, a volunteer at the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum, provided this photo of Whitcomb 44-ton unit 509 built in Rochelle, Illinois in 1941. The locomotive is privately owned but on permanent loan to the museum. Currently inoperative and on display, it has two 180-horswepower Caterpillar engines. First owned by an ammunitions manufacturer, it was sold to the U.S. Army and numbered 7308. Eventually it passed to the Chicago Gravel Company as No. 509, then to the Port of Indiana as bicentennial No. 1776. In 1988 it came to the HVRM and for a time bore the number 27, but its Chicago Gravel number has been restored.