| Title: |
IC 2-8-2 #1398 - Illinois Central |
| Description: |
Sitting in the Proviso yard scrap line after is sale for scrap in May is this Lima built 2-8-2 Mikado awaiting the scrapper's torch. Built in September of 1923 as Illinois Central #1910, the IC shops rebuilt and renumbered it in April of 1938 to IC #1398. It continued to serve unti being sold for scrap in May of 1955. Rebuilt specs - 63.5" drivers, 225 psi boiler pressure, 27x30" cylinders, engine weight of 308,500, tractive effort of 65,868 lb. No photographer was listed for the photo. |
| Photo Date: |
9/17/1955 Upload Date: 8/31/2022 5:24:28 AM |
| Location: |
Proviso, IL |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
IC 1398(2-8-2) |
| Views: |
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