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. Here is the 4-8-4 built for the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad, number 552, the General T. J. Jackson. It had a tractive force of 66,500 lbs., and a combined engine and tender weight in working order of 842,900 lbs. This Baldwin Locomotive Works builders photo specification 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
