MILW 4-6-0 #1073 - Milwaukee Road         
Working the freight yard In Calmar, Iowa, is MILW 4-6-0 #1073 but within a month it will be retired and scrapped. This may be the last working photo of it ever taken before it disappeared into a pile of iron. Originally by as CM&StP Vauclain compound 4-6-0 #432 by Baldwin in Spetember of 1903, it had many road numbers during its nearly 51 years of service - renumbered in 5/1907 to #1782, renumbered in 9/1912 to #4382, renumbered and simplified in 12/1919 to #2932, renumbered in 11/1920 to #2890, renumbered in 6/1938 to #1073. The loco was scrapped in July of 1954.
Date: 6/2/1954 Location: Calmar, IA   Map Show Calmar on a rail map Views: 51 Collection Of:   Gary Everhart
Locomotives: MILW 1073(4-6-0)    Author:  Gary Everhart
MILW 4-6-0 #1073 - Milwaukee Road
Picture Categories: Roster,Steam This picture is part of album:  MILW 4-6-0's - Part 2
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