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. This 2-8-2, number 141-R-441, was built under supervision of the U.S. War Department for the French National Railways. The order covered 260 locomotives. According to the specifications listed on the back of the builder's card, this engine and tender had a total weight of 410,000 lbs., and it had a tractive force of 44,500 lbs. This Baldwin Locomotive Works builders photo card is from the John R. Doughty collection.
