This steam locomotive was used at the Powderly Colliery during the golden era of the anthracite coal industry. Weighing 24 tons, it was manufactured in 1919 by Vulcan Iron Works in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, for the Hudson Coal Company. Powderly Colliery was located in northern Lackawanna County in the second anthracite district. In 1919, the year it was manufactured and purchased, Powderly Colliery mined a total of 466,950 tons of anthracite coal and had 892 employees. This locomotive was one of fourteen similar machines that the Hudson Coal Company owned at its four collieries in the second district. An engineer operated a colliery locomotive, or "lokie," pulling the coal cars that were above ground. The last known engineer of this particular engine was Mr. Walter Chubb.