Coal-fired steam locomotive #2164 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the Northern Pacific Railway in 1909. Numbered 2164 by the Northern Pacific, the locomotive and coal tender weighed 298,600 pounds, were 78 feet long, 16 feet tall at the highest point, and 10 feet wide. It was originally used to power the North Coast Limited, the Northern Pacific's premier transcontinental passenger train running from Chicago to Seattle, and it was also used in branch-line passenger and mixed train service in North Dakota. It last operated on June 4, 1955, on the Jamestown to Pingree run, and after that final trip it was taken to the Jamestown roundhouse to be drained, cleaned, and completely refurbished for display at the new Camp Hancock State Historic Site in Bismarck. When retired from service in 1955, it had operated approximately 1,400,000 miles. In October 1955 it was pulled from Jamestown to Bismarck on a regular Northern Pacific freight run, and the southwest portion of the stone wall around Camp Hancock was removed and track laid so it could be pulled into the site by bulldozer. Camp Hancock and locomotive #2164 were dedicated as a new state historic site on October 12, 1955. The locomotive was placed there to commemorate the role of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in the 1872 creation of Camp Hancock and the founding of the city of Edwinton, later renamed Bismarck, in 1873. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company was formed on July 2, 1864, and chartered by President Abraham Lincoln as the first northern transcontinental railroad; in 1896 its name changed to the Northern Pacific Railway. After almost 107 years of service, the NP merged with numerous other railway companies in March 1970 to form the Burlington Northern Railway, and in June 1971 the North Coast Limited route was taken over by the newly formed, government-run National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, which continues to offer North Coast service on a much changed route.