EBT Locomotive Roster
'Ghost (informal)'

This JLC model Plymouth switcher originally served the Grant Smith & Company of Litchfield, CA and St. Paul, MN. GS&C was construction contractor. GS&C is known to have built concrete arch bridges in Idaho, a breakwater in Vancouver BC and excavation work for double tracking a Saint Louis-San Francisco rail line near Saint Louis. One report has this locomotive serving the company in Edgar, MT.

Later the locomotive served the Charles Warner Company of Wilmington, DE. Initially a steamboat transportation company, Warner later focused on mining with a large domontie quarry in Chester County (east of Philadelplia) as well as later operations in Belfonte and Tullytown, PA. The company eventually focused on cement and concrete from the quarries it owned. Warner Corporation's Union Furnace Quarry, just 37 miles from the EBT and the purported previous home of M-4, is the most likely previous home of this unit.

This locomotive is gasoline-mechanical rather than diesel-mechanical like fellow Plymouths M-4 and M-6. It is a much earlier model in the JL series than the other Plymouths. It has a rare Climax straight six gasoline engine. It may have been part of the same purchase that brought M-4 to the property.

It has not operated since coming to the EBT. It was stored its in the Locomotive Shop since arriving. After the M-7 clones that shared the Locomotive Shop with this unit were sold in 2002, This locomotive was moved into the Car Shop on the dead end track in 9-2006, where the US Steel Davenport was already stored. It remained there until the purchase of the EBT by the EBT Foundation. In April 2020 it was moved into the Car Barn where it currently resides. The unit is missing its radiator. hood side panels, and some other parts.

s/n 2833
model JLC w/ Climax engine
14 tons
blt 3/1928
Grant Smith & Co. (Edgar, Montana)