PM 2-8-4 #1220 - Pere Marquette  Contributor's Pick!       
Here is a beautiful example of a 1941 Lima built Berkshire. It was a class N1 with 69" drivers and developed a boiler pressure of 245 psi for its 26"x34" cylinders. The engine wt was 442,500 lb, and it created a resprectable tractive effort of 69,368 lb. Sadly the class was scrapped by 1958 but it was a brute in its heyday!. Mac Miller photo
Date: 8/1/1949 Location: Clearing (subdivision), IL   Map Show Clearing (subdivision) on a rail map Views: 2887 Collection Of:   Gary Everhart
Locomotives: PM 1220(2-8-4)    Author:  Gary Everhart
PM 2-8-4 #1220 - Pere Marquette
Picture Categories: Roster,Steam This picture is part of album:  Pere Marquette Steam
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Name Type Comments Date
Rick Morgan General Now there's a beauty- like all of the Sweringen Berks 1/1/2014 7:48:49 AM
Mike Maskel General NICE SHOT 1/1/2014 10:40:23 PM
Fred Stuckmann General Sweet, I like Berks in general. 1/2/2014 11:58:47 AM
Wendy Crim General It's a Berk, yay:) 1/2/2014 6:36:32 PM
Robert Beichler General The Berks were the best liked by the crews and I think the rest of us. 1/2/2014 6:39:19 PM
Lisa Hicks General My great-grandfather Glen Lee was the supervising engineer who built this train at the Lima locomotive Works Inc. I have a photo of it's completion in 1941 with him, him still in coveralls along with 15 other workers and officials. I mew to this site and will post it iwhen I figure out how.. 12/4/2016 1:11:16 PM

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