Title: |
MILW 4-6-0 #1073 - Milwaukee Road |
Description: |
Working the freight yard In Calmar, Iowa, is MILW 4-6-0 #1073 but within a month it will be retired and scrapped. This may be the last working photo of it ever taken before it disappeared into a pile of iron. Originally by as CM&StP Vauclain compound 4-6-0 #432 by Baldwin in Spetember of 1903, it had many road numbers during its nearly 51 years of service - renumbered in 5/1907 to #1782, renumbered in 9/1912 to #4382, renumbered and simplified in 12/1919 to #2932, renumbered in 11/1920 to #2890, renumbered in 6/1938 to #1073. The loco was scrapped in July of 1954. |
Photo Date: |
6/2/1954 Upload Date: 4/25/2023 3:37:54 AM |
Location: |
Calmar, IA |
Author: |
Gary Everhart |
Categories: |
Roster,Steam |
Locomotives: |
MILW 1073(4-6-0) |
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