RailPictures.Net Photo: WP 259 Western Pacific Steam 2-8-8-2 at Eddystone, Pennsylvania by John Doughty

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» Western Pacific (more..)
» Steam 2-8-8-2 (more..)

» Baldwin Locomotive Works
» Eddystone, Pennsylvania, USA (more..)
» March, 1938

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» WP 259 (more..)
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» John Doughty (more..)
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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. Here is a beautiful 2-8-8-2 built for the Western Pacific Railroad, number 259. It had a tractive force of 137,000 lbs., and a combined engine and tender weight in working order of 1,066,450 lbs. This Baldwin Locomotive Works builders photo specification card is from the John R. Doughty collection.

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