| Heading up a mixed freight on this day is Erie 4-6-2 Pacific #2916. Note the "superelevation or cant" (banked) curve that #2916 has at Great Bend, PA - a well named spot! History - Baldwin, 5/1919 Specs - serial #51817, class K-5, 79" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 75x28" cylinders, engine weight of 306,000 lb, tractive effort of 43,925 lb. Retired and sold from scrap in August of 1950. This J.R. Quinn photo is now part of my rr collection. |