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3/28/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Pere Marquette
Model:Lima 2-8-4Built As:PM 1239 (2-8-4)
Serial Number:8461Order No:1180
Frame Number:26X34 cylinders, 69" driversBuilt:4/1944
Notes:1944, class N-2, scrapped 1961
Other locos with this serial:  PM 1239(2-8-4)
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PM 2-8-4 #1239 - Pere Marquette
Title:  PM 2-8-4 #1239 - Pere Marquette
Description:  Beautiful photo from an original negative of a solid powerhouse, 1944 Lima 2-8-4 Berkshire, built for the Pere Marquette as their #1239. Specs - class N2, 69" drivers, impressive 245 psi boiler pressure, 26x34" cylinders, engine weight of 442,500 lb, tractive effort of 69,397 lb. Photo from an original negative. No date, location or photographer was given for the negative.
Photo Date:  6/1/1946  Upload Date: 10/13/2017 4:39:32 AM
Location:  UNKNOWN, MI
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  PM 1239(2-8-4)
Views:  884   Comments: 4
PM 2-8-4 #1239 - Pere Marquette
Title:  PM 2-8-4 #1239 - Pere Marquette
Description:  Technically this was a Chesapeake & Ohio Berkshire after the 1947 merger of the PM roster into the parent C&O. Built by Lima in April of 1944 as PM #1239 (serial #8461, class N-2), the loco served the PM Railway and then the C&O (never renumbered) until being written off the C&O roster in January of 1958 and scrapped in 1961. Final specs - 70" drivers (upgraded from 69" in 1947 by PM shops), impressive 245 psi boiler pressure, 26x34" cylinders, engine weight of 456,100 lb, tractive effort of 69,350 lb with booster adding 14,400 lb. No photographer was listed for the photo.
Photo Date:  11/13/1960  Upload Date: 6/10/2022 6:39:10 AM
Location:  New Buffalo, MI
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  PM 1239(2-8-4)
Views:  197   Comments: 0


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