AT&SF Freight Leaving Argentine Yard

Jack Delano recorded this night-time image of AT&SF steam locomotive #3167 as it departed the Argentine Yard with its freight train in tow. This yard is located in Kansas City, Kansas, and there are traces of snow still on the ground in this March, 1943 scene.

The #3167 was a ‘Mikado’ type 2-8-2 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1917. She sported 63″ diameter drivers, 27″ x 32″ cylinders, a 200 psi boiler pressure, and exerted 62, 950 pounds of tractive effort.

She was lost in a flood in 1952 and is said to still be sunk in the Kaw River in Topeka, Kansas.

AT&SF Freight Leaving Argentine Yard