Standard Oil 1, an Alco-built 0-4-0T, left the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden on Monday for the Fort Caspar Museum in Casper, Wyo. The locomotive worked in Casper for more than four decades, switching tank cars at a refinery. 

The locomotive was loaded onto a flatbed trailer on Monday, and then made a nearly 300-mile trek to Casper, where it will be unloaded at the Fort Caspar Museum on Tuesday. It will be placed on display near the museum’s entrance as part of a larger exhibit about the city’s oil industry.

Local historian and Fort Caspar Museum volunteer Con Trumbull worked with the Colorado Railroad Museum over the past year to bring the locomotive home.

Built in 1920 by the Cooke Works of the American Locomotive Company in Paterson, N.J., the locomotive worked at one of the largest refineries in the world in Casper until the early 1960s, when it was retired and donated to the Colorado Railroad Museum in 1962. After over six decades on display, CRRM transferred ownership to the Fort Caspar Museum following its deaccession last year. 

This summer, the Fort Caspar Museum launched a fundraiser to raise $15,000 to cover transportation and the future cosmetic restoration of the locomotive. For more information, visit http://fortcaspar.org/standard-oil-locomotive. 

— Nick Stewart