| A proud engineer poses high up at his window with a head of steam and a load of coal in the 1906 Alco built Consolidation camelback. Specifics - class E-3a, 56" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 23x30" cylinders, engine weight of 191,700 lb, tractive effort of 37,485 lb. Later the loco was upgraded with larger cylinders (23x30") and superheater among the changes and then reclassified as an E-48.?F. Rodney Dirkes photo |