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Owner: Illinois Central
Model:Lima 4-8-2Built As:IC 3008 (2-10-2)
Serial Number:6334Order No:1036
Frame Number:Built:1/1923
Notes:reblt at IC Shops, 09/1937, class 2500, boiler from 3008, retired 12/59
Other locos with this serial:  IC 2509(4-8-2)
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IC 4-8-2 #2509 - Illinois Central
Title:  IC 4-8-2 #2509 - Illinois Central
Description:  Beautiful example of the IC shops built 4-8-2 sometime bertween 1937-43. Offering a prodigious power output on 70" drivers, the Mountains gave good service in freight service of all kinds, according to John S. Ingles (in Drury, 1993), "...even coal trains moved faster behind 4-8-2s than they had behind 2-10-2s." Specs - class 2500, 70" drivers, impressive 240 psi boiler pressure, 30x30" cylinders, engine wt 409,500 lb, tractive effort of 78,866 lb. No date, location or photographer was listed for this negative so approximations were used.
Photo Date:  6/1/1940  Upload Date: 9/29/2017 12:32:55 PM
Location:  Unknown, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  IC 2509(4-8-2)
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