Looking like a "long drink of water', this beautiful Santa Fe-type locomotive sits quietly next to the freight house in St Cloud, MN. The note on the back accurately describes this loco "Q-2 Baldwin, 1914, Rebuilt in 1928 by G.N. Shops" Fifteen GN 4-8-2s (numbers 1750-1764), which were built by Lima in 1914, were rebuilt as these long monster. with new numbers of 2175-2189. After serving the Great Northern in both configurations, this loco was finally scrapped in 1958. Bill Kuba photo |