Running with just a caboose and boxcar, BM 0-6-0 #438 are running at an unidentified location. Built by Alco-Brooks in 1916, the last of the the yard switchers in this class G-11b were gone by July of 1955. Not bad for 39 years of service. Specs - 52" drivers, 185 psi boiler pressure, 20x26" cylinders, engine weight of 150,000 lb. Unknown location or exact day in 1943. Photo by B. Bowden |