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Owner: Missouri Pacific
Model:Alco 2-8-2Built As:MP 1565 (2-8-2)
Serial Number:66258Order No:B-1669
Frame Number:27X30 cylinders, 63" driversBuilt:4/1925
Notes:blt in 1925 by Brooks, class MK-63 class, scrapped 6/15/1951
Other locos with this serial:  MP 1565(2-8-2)
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MP 2-8-2 #1565 - Missouri Pacific
Title:  MP 2-8-2 #1565 - Missouri Pacific
Description:  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
Photo Date:  6/1/1940  Upload Date: 1/26/2015 9:34:01 AM
Location:  Carthage, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  MP 1565(2-8-2)
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