Here is a new railroad for Railpictures, this 2-8-2 number 601 was built for the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. 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. The 601 had a tractive force of 54,800 lbs., and a combined engine and tender weight in working order of 382,000 lbs. This Baldwin Locomotive Works builders photo specification card is from the John R. Doughty collection.
