| Caught sitting in the Beloit, WI, yard is MILW 2-8-2 Mikado #488. Baldwin, 9/1923, nee-CMStP 2-8-2 #8388 (serial #57177, L-sb class) > renumbered in June of 1938 to MILW 488. The loco served for 32 years before being scrapped in December of 1955. Specs - 63" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 26x30" cylinders, engine wt of 292,770 lb and tractive force of 54,723 lb. No photographer was listed for the photo which is now in my collection. |