GT 7527 is a USRA designed 0-6-0 built by Schenectady in 1919 and one of the last two steamers to work in Portland, Maine. She and sister 7531 operated there until June 20, about two months after I shot this. The remarkable thing about the picture is that fifty years after I took it PROTO 2000 offered the USRA 0-6-0 lettered Grand Trunk and numbered 7527 -- I only had to change the smokebox number board and front handrails to duplicate 7527 when she was on the GT. (I seem to remember she worked on the GTW and had the triangular number board that came with the HO model.)

Photographed by Edward Ozog, April 22, 1956.
Added to the photo archive by Edward Ozog, August 5, 2009.
Railroad: Grand Trunk.

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