This Alco-Richmond 2-8-0 Consolidation was built sometime between 1903-07 when hundreds were made for the Chesapeake & Ohio. Now it sits in the scrap line waiting for the scrapper's torch. Specs - class G-7, 56" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 22x28" cylinders, engine weight of 184,400 lb, tractive effort of 41,140 lb. R.D. Patton photo |