| This appears to be an builder's photo of the Baldwin built 2-6-6-2 Mallet. According to www.steamlocomotive.com "The Chessie went to Baldwin in 1949 to buy the last ten steam locomotives the Eddystone plant would erect for any US railroad. Fifteen more planned for construction were postponed, then cancelled because of a coal strike during critical months. Don Black notes too that the traditional circular Baldwin builder's plate was replaced by a pyramidal form." Specs - class H-6, 56" drivers, 210 psi boiler pressure, 22x32" high pressure cylinders, 35x32" (2) low pressure cylinders, engine weight of 434,900 lb, tractive effort of 70,773 lb. |