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The Baldwin Locomotive Works built this 4-4-0 American Standard type locomotive. The railroad extensively rebuilt it with a new boiler, new steam chests with piston valves, a steel cab, and a new tender, and converted it to burn oil, so that only the frame and a few other parts of the 1890 original remained. It now has 18" x 24" cylinders and 69" drivers, is 58' 11 1/2" long, and weighs 225,800 lbs. in working order. In 1945 it was reconditioned to power the Katy Flyer, an exhibition train that toured the M-K-T system to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the line's winning the West by beating all rail competition to the northern border of Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Donated by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, it arrived on Sept. 25, 1952, and it is the only preserved Katy steam locomotive.

Missouri · United States