| Last updated on August 7, 2025
Two 4-8-4s, Baldwin products of 1943, lead a westbound freight with a long string of open hoppers through Sandy Hook, Mo., about 19 miles west of Jefferson City on Missouri Pacific’s River Line. The railroad had 15 such locomotives, Nos. 2201–2215, and 25 more home-built examples, Nos. 2101–2125.
C. T. Wood photo
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Handlers of the heavy freight rail traffic… The last of the class was scrapped in 1956.
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Same photo is elsewhere in the database, captioned “MoPac Doubleheader”.