The Iron Horse Memorial in Paducah, a Kentucky city at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers
The memorial remembers the days when this steam locomotive was donated to the city by the Illinois Central Railroad in 1963. This Mikado-type steam locomotive (No. 1518) was the last “iron horse" owned by the ICRR. Engines built and rebuilt in the company’s Paducah shops until 1960,played prominent role in the “Age of Steam. “
- Date
- 2020-07-15
- Collection
- Carol M. Highsmith Archive
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,024 × 529 pixels
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