For this first posting in the month of September, I’m featuring a photograph from the 1986 calendar published by the Louisiana State Railroad Museum, it being for their month of September. The caption for the image follows below.

“Trim Ten Wheeler #260 of the Missouri Pacific Lines still carries the reporting marks of subsidiary St.LB&M in this October 1948 photo at DeQuincy, Louisiana. The 1907 Baldwin product is posed by her proud engineer in front of the long since departed enginehouse but still remaining water tower. (Photo from the collection of Harold K. Vollrath)”

Actually, the locomotive is lettered for the Missouri Pacific Lines (barely visible on the tender), and sub-lettered for the St.LB&M, the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway. She was originally lettered for the St.LB&M, then for later acquisitions: the Gulf Coast Lines, and finally the MoPac. This tidy little oil-burner was one of twelve ordered by the St.LB&M from Baldwin between June of 1905 and December of 1907, numbered 251 – 262.