The T&NO donated the locomotive to the city of
Beaumont, Texas, on February 2, 1957, with the project spearheaded by then Mayor Jimmie P. Cokinos. No. 975 is now preserved in static display at the
Illinois Railway Museum in
Union, Illinois. It is one of only two Southern Pacific locomotives of this wheel arrangement to be preserved; the other is
982, which has moved to Union Station,
Minute Maid Baseball Park in
Houston, Texas in 2005.[1]
The T&NO donated the locomotive to the city of
Beaumont, Texas, on February 2, 1957, with the project spearheaded by then Mayor Jimmie P. Cokinos. No. 975 is now preserved in static display at the
Illinois Railway Museum in
Union, Illinois. It is one of only two Southern Pacific locomotives of this wheel arrangement to be preserved; the other is
982, which has moved to Union Station,
Minute Maid Baseball Park in
Houston, Texas in 2005.[1]