This beautiful 4-8-4 Northern was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railway. It is the John Marshall. It had a tractive force of 62,800 lbs., and a combined engine and tender weight of 724,400 lbs. My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin Locomotive Works. This Baldwin Locomotive Works builders photo 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
