With a grate area of 88 square feet, the Illinois Central 2600-series Mountains boasted 5195 square feet of evaporative heating surface and 1240 square feet of superheating surface, with an 88-square-foot grate area, rendering them relatively high-horsepower engines eminently suitable for the Illinois Central's high-speed main line freight operations. This photo of No. 2614 at the Paducah Shops (notice the huge overhead crane behind the locomotive) reveals that she was among the members of this class that sported disc drivers. No. 2614 went to the torch in October 1960, and none of the 2600s have been preserved. However, viewer William J. Manon, Jr. of Dixon, Illinois notes that 2614's tender, along with that of No. 2612, is still rusting away on a siding in Rockford, Illinois. Tom Rock of Rock on Trains provided this image, of unknown origin, for the Random Steam Collection.