| Sitting in a St Louis yard is this Alco-Brooks 4-6-2 Pacific built in August of 1923 for the New York, Chicago & St Louis (Nickel Plate) as their #167. Specs - serial #64634, class K-1b, 73" drivers, 215 psi boiler pressure, 22.5x26" cyldiners, engine weight of 255,320 lb, tractive effort of 32,951 lb. The loco was sold for scrap to the Luntz Iron & Steel Company on 8/23/1952. The photo is from the Howard W. Ameling collection. |