Southern Railway 722

Summary

Southern Railway 722 is a 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive, built in September 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW), originally as a member of the K class for the Southern Railway (SOU). It was significantly modified with superheaters and larger cylinders during the 1910s-20s, being re-classified as a Ks-1 type. The locomotive ran on the Murphy Branch, hauling freight trains between Asheville and Murphy, North Carolina for the SOU until its retirement in 1952. That same year, No. 722 was purchased by the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC), alongside fellow Ks-1 locomotive No. 630, where they were served as switchers around Johnson City and Elizabethton, Tennessee.