| Built by Baldwin in September of 1900 as CM&StP Vauclain compound 4-6-0 #357, it sserved for nearly 50 years before being reitred and scrapped. Along the way, it carried many numbers - renumbered in 3/1907 to #1707, renumbered in 9/1912 to #4307, renumbered and simplified in 2/1921 to #2857, renumbered in 6/1938 to #1079. According to the Baldwin records compiled by Albert Weber III, the loco was supposedly scrapped in March of 1950 but this photo has a date listed as 1952. One of them is incorrect. No photographer was listed. |