Locomotive to find new home at Wrigley Center

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It’s new life for a locomotive with a storied past. After nearly five years, restoration has wrapped up on the Daniel B. Harrington, a steam powered locomotive from one of Port Huron’s early railroads. Not unlike many other things, project manager T.J. Gaffney tells WPHM the pandemic was to blame for several setbacks.

“We were in the home stretch in 2020 when… everything shut down,” said Gaffney. “It really, pardon the pun, took the steam out.”

The Harrington was the original locomotive of the Port Huron and Northwestern Railway and had been in long-term storage at the Port Huron Museum since the early 1990s. Restoration work on the locomotive began in 2018 at SC4 and is expected to be moved from the college to the Wrigley Center sometime in the coming weeks.

“We needed to look to a new community partner and the Wrigley Center has been such an amazing project,” said Port Huron Museum Community Engagement Director Andrew Kercher. “We are very excited to get it over there.”

The locomotive  had tentatively been scheduled to be be moved last week but has since been postponed due tot he weather.