By the late 1930s the 4-6-0 or Ten-Wheeler was considered an obsolete type, so a streamlined Ten-Wheeler was indeed a rarity. For Northwoods Hiawatha service over a line that could not support heavier power, the Milwaukee Road streamlined two older 4-6-0s and reclassified them simply as class G. No. 10, shown here at New Lisbon, Wisconsin in July 1940, began life as Vauclain compound No. 315 of class B3, but after two renumberings she had been rebuilt in 1926 as a simple locomotive and reassigned to class G6-ps as No. 2769. With a driver diameter of 69 inches and a boiler pressure of 200 p.s.i., she had cylinder dimensions of 20x26 inches. Evaporative heating surface was 1898 square feet, superheating surface 400 square feet, and grate area 35 square feet. Locomotive weight is given as 187,650 pounds, although whether this figure includes the additional weight of the streamlined shrouding is not stated. With these modest dimensions No. 10 mustered a tractive effort of 31,004 pounds, evidently sufficient to handle her Hiawatha assignment until larger power became available. In 1946 she was de-streamlined and later renumbered to 1111, but was retired in 1951. This image came from the collection of Clifford "Mike" Southard, as preserved by the Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Museum of Genoa, Illinois.