Here is a new railroad for Railpictures, this 2-8-2 number 601 was built for the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collingswood, New Jersey. The 601 had a tractive force of 54,800 lbs., and a combined engine and tender weight in working order of 382,000 lbs. This Baldwin Locomotive Works builders photo specification card is from the John R. Doughty collection.
Dedicated to my father, John R. Doughty, Sr., and to his great uncle, Robert F. McKee, Sr., who worked at the Baldwin Locomotive Works as a senior design engineer, including working on the design for the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 Yellowstones
