| Built by Alco-Brooks in April of 1925 long before the later EMD GP15 wore the same number came along, this heavyweight 2-8-2 Mikado and its sisters served the Missouri Pacific well into the mid-1950's. MP #1565 mae it all the way to 6/15/1951 before being scrapped at North Little Rock, Arkansas. Specifics - 63" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 27x32" cylinders, engine weight of 330,840 lb, tractive effort of 62,949 lb. Robert Graham photo |