The Huckleberry Railroad in Michigan is the recipient of a $1.3 million grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation that will cover the restoration of a Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge 2-8-2 locomotive that last ran in 2019. 

Rio Grande 464 is a K-27 type locomotive built by Baldwin in 1903. It is one of only two K-27 locomotives in existence, the other being 463 at the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic. The engine was retired in the 1960s and sold to Knott’s Berry Farm in California. Unfortunately, the engine was too large for the park railroad, and it was sold to the Huckleberry Railroad. The railroad is owned and operated by the local parks department. Huckleberry presently has another steam engine in service, 4-6-0 152. The restoration of that locomotive was also supported by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 

—Justin Franz