| With a head of steam and a full tender of coal, Milwaukee Road 2-8-2 Mikado #453 is ready for its next assignment. Baldwin, 7/1923, nee-Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul 2-8-2 #8353 (serial #56763, class L-2b) > renumbered in June of 1938 to MILW #453. It served for nearly 31 years before being scrapped in November of 1954. Specs - 63" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 26x30" cylinders, engine wt of 292,770 lb and tractive force of 54,723 lb. Unfortunately, no photographer was listed for this photo. |