{"id":4361,"date":"2025-08-03T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:47:32","slug":"a-burly-2-8-0-steamer-on-the-kcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/08\/03\/a-burly-2-8-0-steamer-on-the-kcs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Burly 2-8-0 Steamer on the KCS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once again, for this first posting in the month of August, I\u2019m featuring a photograph from the 1986 calendar published by the Louisiana State Railroad Museum, it being for <em>their<\/em> month of August. The caption for the image follows below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;March 1950, and Kansas City Southern&#8217;s class E-4 Consolidation, a 1913 graduate of Richmond, awaits her next assignment at Shreveport, Louisiana, the operating headquarters of the KCS Lines. (Photo from the collection of Harold K. Vollrath)&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201c1913 graduate of Richmond\u201d referred to above is fully Alco-Richmond.  By 1901 Richmond Locomotive Works had merged with seven other manufacturing companies to form the A<em>merican Locomotive Company<\/em> (ALCO). Locomotive production at Richmond ceased in September 1927.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KCS-2-8-0-554.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KCS-2-8-0-554.jpg\" alt=\"KCS 2-8-0 #554\" class=\"wp-image-4360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KCS-2-8-0-554.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KCS-2-8-0-554-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KCS-2-8-0-554-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KCS-2-8-0-554-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There seems to be relatively few photographs of KCS locomotives, and information about them is scant (at least in my search).  I was able to unearth only a bit of information about this burly 2-8-0. Built in 1913, she had 57\u2033 drivers, and her boiler fed 175 psi steam to a pair of 24\u2033 x 30\u2033 cylinders. This produced 45,095 lbs of tractive effort.  She underwent a re-building at some point, with the receipt of 63&#8243; drivers, and her boiler pressure increased to 200 psi.  Cylinder diameter was increased to 26&#8243;, and the tractive effort increased to 54,725 lbs.  It appears she was one of eight class E-4s to be switched from coal burning to oil firing, that observation based on the Vanderbilt tender she tows.  She was scrapped in 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This information was uncovered at the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamlocomotive.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.steamlocomotive.com<\/strong><\/a>, and also from handwritten notes of an unknown author, found in the collection of <em>Lester L. Dickson<\/em> at the Youngstown State University website <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.maag.ysu.edu\/xmlui\/handle\/1989\/43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/digital.maag.ysu.edu\/xmlui\/handle\/1989\/43<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, for this first posting in the month of August, I\u2019m featuring a photograph from the 1986 calendar published by the Louisiana State Railroad Museum, it being for their month of August. The caption for the image follows below. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/08\/03\/a-burly-2-8-0-steamer-on-the-kcs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-like","category-proto-research","category-railfanning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4373,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}