A long gone sight A L&N GE U25C # 1516 leads a coal train out on line near Evansville Indiana on a nice fall day in october 1978

Illinois Central 2-8-2 1516 was built in 1918 as ICRR 1810. She had 63" drivers, 27 x 30 inch cylinders, boiler pressure of 185 lbs, and could exert up to 54,583 lbs of tractive effort. She was on... (more)

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