Built by Alco in 1903 for the Chicago Union Transfer Railway, this Mikado was quickly sold to the Illinois Central, which rebuilt it with superheat about a decade later. Replaced by diesels in the 1950s, it was sold into private hands, but as late as the spring of 1965 it saw use at the Clinton Corn Processing Company during flooding. It came to the original Steamtown in Vermont during 1966.
Bibliography:
"Six Wheel Switchers for the Illinois Central Railroad" Railway & Locomotive Engineering March 1913 p.111 Includes a photo of Alco-built locomotive #218
A Catalogue Descriptive of Simple and Compound Locomotives By Brooks Locomotive Works, Dunkirk, N.Y., Brooks Locomotive Works, Dunkirk Brooks Locomotive Works, N.Y
