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Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, this six-wheel 0-6-0 switching locomotive moved cars in rail yards or industrial plants, where switchers were designed for low speeds and sharp curves and usually lacked leading or trailing wheels so all their weight rested on the driving wheels. It also had a slope-back or "fantail" tender, whose shape gave the engine crew a better view of people working at the rear and improved safety. In 1923 the locomotive received a new boiler that changed its appearance. It was sold to the East St. Louis Junction Railroad in 1941 and served local stockyards across the Mississippi River in Illinois. In the early 1950s it was bought by St. Louis Material and Supply, later Basic Materials, in Pacific, Missouri, where it switched hopper cars of gravel until 1963, becoming the last conventional steam locomotive to operate regularly in the St. Louis area.

Missouri · United States