Is there a drawing of this locomotive? Gary
Firsrt, CRI&P had several classes of Mikados, so you need to specify which class or number block
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Class |
Qty. |
Road Numbers |
Year Built |
Builder |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
K-60 |
40 |
2500 - 2539 |
1912 |
Baldwin |
|
|
10 |
2540 - 2549 |
1912 |
ALCO |
||
|
25 |
2550 - 2574 |
1913 |
Baldwin |
||
|
20 |
2575 - 2594 |
1918 |
ALCO |
||
|
K-55 |
9 |
2300 - 2308 |
1919 |
Baldwin |
USRA allocated “Mikado-Light” locomotives |
|
11 |
2309 - 2319 |
1919 |
ALCO |
USRA allocated “Mikado-Light” locomotives |
|
|
K-60 |
24 |
2595 - 2618 |
1923 |
Baldwin |
Four of these locomotives were sold to the Soo Line in 1941 |
|
24 |
2619 - 2642 |
1923 |
ALCO |
||
|
K-60b |
36 |
2643 - 2678 |
1923 |
ALCO |
|
|
K-64b |
10 |
2679 - 2688 |
1926 |
ALCO |
The Rock Island Technical Society has been gone for about 10 years. There are a couple of groups on Groups io. One is RITSLIST, the old email discussion group that survived the RITS disintegrating and another is RockIslandLines.
A couple of books about RI steam engines have diagrams of most of the locomotive classes but the diagrams have dimensions but not detailed drawings. I’m sure someone out there has some.
Jeff
I looked on RILIST and got the info that i needed. Thank you. Gary
At the risk of highjacking the OP’s topic, I am really surprised that there has not been a successful resurrected version of the Rock Island historical society with a magazine and member meets and website and all the other features of the best “fallen flag” rail historical societies. There are certainly avid Rock Island fans out there, that I know, and RI topics are not unknown on these Forums, with this thread being just the latest example. I have also seen ample Rock Island items and railroadiana collectable train shows.
Indeed Green River Hobbies, the hobby shop in Geneseo IL, seems to have a special RI emphasis. Much of the RI infrastructure remains (at least in Iowa and IL it does), with structures, depots, bridges, and other such features, so there would be no shortage of places to hold annual or regional meets devoted to the Rock. I know it is all too easy to send an historical society into a downward spiral if the magazine starts getting delayed or nobody is submitting articles. Every Rock Island oriented magazine I have seen has been a good one.
It’s a head scratcher.
Dave Nelson
There are a couple of active Rock Island boards on FB. No substitute for a historical society though. I don’t think historical societies are quite as big as they once were. At one point they were the sole source of specific prototype info. With the internet that has certainly changed.