Grand Canyon Railway locomotive #4960 prepares to leave Williams, Arizona with a train bound for Cataract Lake.
#4960 is a O-1 Class 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive that was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia in 1923 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy (Burlington / Burlington Route). Though the locomotive now pulls passenger trains for the Grand Canyon it originally pulled freight trains across the Midwest for the CB&Q until it was retired in the late 1950s.
In 1996 the Grand Canyon Railway restored the locomotive and converted it to run on recycled vegetable oil instead of machine oil.
The Mikado makes daily trips to Cataract Lake north of Williams and makes bi-yearly trips to the rim of the Grand Canyon on the 4th of July and in mid September to celebrate the railroads anniversary.
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