Caught sitting in the bright sunlight at the Minneapolis yard is Great Northern 2-8-2 Mikado #3056. Built by Baldwin in February of 1913, it served the GN until it was scrapped in 1953. Specs - seerial #39206, class O-1 (2nd batch), 63" drivers, 210 psi boiler pressure, 28x32" cylinders, engine weight of 315,360 lb, tractive effort of 71,083 lb. Unknown photographer |