2-8-0 with a fraught history

2-8-0 with a fraught history

By Angela Cotey | April 3, 2023

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 No. 16, pictured without her smokebox door inside the short line’s enginehouse in September 1954, went into a river in 1916, was caught in a wildfire in 1918, and was inside the old enginehouse when it burned down in 1952.
Philip R. Hastings photo

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