Using a conveyer, crewmen refill the coal bunker of Illinois Central Consolidation No. 908 at Bloomington, Illinois in June 1956. While these 900-series 2-8-0s still held down the run between Bloomington and Kankakee, I did my best to capture them on film. According to Ray Breyer's Illinois Central steam spreadsheet this engine, numbered 944 when Baldwin delivered her in 1909, was the last of this group to be scrapped, surviving till 1960. In 1943 the IC's Paducah Shops gave her 27x30-inch cylinders, larger than those of many others rebuilt at that time. Consequently No. 908 weighed more, at 249,000 pounds, and developed an impressive 70,460 pounds of tractive force. Note the squared-off sand dome of this stoker-equipped Consolidation, further evidence of her Paducah makeover.