Virginia and Truckee 27, Tender locomotive in Virginia City, Nevada, United States

Virginia and Truckee 27 is a 4-6-0 "Ten-Wheeler" steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1913, weighing 121,000 pounds with 56-inch driving wheels. It is displayed at the Comstock History Center in Virginia City, Nevada, coupled to its tender.

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1913 as #39453, it was the last locomotive delivered new to the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. After its boiler permit expired in 1948, it was recalled for a final run on May 31, 1950, pulling the last revenue train from Minden to Reno. Since 2018 it has been displayed at the Comstock History Center in Virginia City.

This locomotive represents how railroads were vital to Nevada's mining operations and connected remote mining camps to commercial centers. It shows the mechanical ingenuity that miners and engineers developed to move ore across difficult terrain.

No. 27 stands indoors at the Comstock History Center in Virginia City, in the same parking lot where it was stored from the 1970s to the 1990s. It is a 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler with a tender, 121,000 pounds in all, riding on 56-inch driving wheels. Look for the builder's plate of Baldwin Locomotive Works, no. 39453, cast in 1913.

Locomotive No. 27 was built by Baldwin in 1913 as works number 39453 and weighs 121,000 pounds, 100,000 of it on its 56-inch driving wheels, giving 22,400 pounds of tractive effort. It was the last locomotive the Virginia and Truckee acquired new, and it pulled the railroad's final revenue train from Minden to Reno on May 31, 1950, after engine No. 26 was destroyed by an engine-house fire that May 2.