Sitting in a storage line is this Alco USRA "heavyweight" 2-8-2 Mikado built in 1918-19 as MILW #8666 but renumbered after 1938. Specs - class L3, 63" drivers, 27 x 32" cylinders, 190 psi boiler pressure, engine weighed 325,000 pounds, 59,800 pounds of tractive effort. Bruce Black photo |