Back in the day, I know they built these things for function, but I wonder if "the look" was taken in to consideration. This is one beautiful piece of machinery.
There was brilliant sunshine the morning I took this photo. I should have kept a better eye on my exposure. It's a little hot.
Below is a paragraph shamelessly lifted from the Steamtown web site:
Rebuilt and modernized in 1918 to a superheated heavy freight locomotive. Renumbered to IC 790, January 1943. Last company service was replacing IC diesels during spring floods near Cedar Rapids, IA. Manually fired. Sold by a private owner to Nelson Blount, 1966. Only surviving locomotive from the Chicago Union Transfer Railway and one of nine surviving from the Illinois Central.
