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Gary Everhart's Collection
 
5/18/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: WLE
Model:Alco 2-8-4Built As:WLE 6404 (2-8-4)
Serial Number:68832Order No:S-1771
Frame Number:25X34 cylinders, 69" driversBuilt:4/1937
Notes:Schenectady 04/1937, class K-1, to NKP 804 06/1952, sfs 03/1962
Other locos with this serial:  WLE 6404(2-8-4) NKP 804(2-8-4)
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WLE 2-8-4 #6404 - Wheeling & Lake Erie
Title:  WLE 2-8-4 #6404 - Wheeling & Lake Erie
Description:  Beautiful 1937 Alco built 2-8-4 Berkshire (bldr #66832) doing a job it was built to do - a coal drag. The loco was absorbed into the Nickel Plate and renumbered as NKP 6404 in 1949. Three years later it was renumbered again as #804. Eventually it was scrapped between 1961-63. According to www.steamlocomotive.com "These represented Superpower design at its peak - big boilers and grates, long-stroke cylinders, lots of superheat, and relatively tall drivers to deliver the freight at speeds only dreamt of 25 years earlier." Specs - 69" drivers, impressive 245 psi boiler pressure, 25x34" cylinders, engine weight of 413,170 lb, tractive effort of 64,135 lb. Max Miller photo
Photo Date:  9/22/1937  Upload Date: 4/12/2016 5:05:33 PM
Location:  Harmon, OH
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  WLE 6404(2-8-4)
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