The Minneapolis & St. Louis billed itself as "The Peoria Gateway," a freight bypass around the congested Chicago region. Passenger service, however, was light and the railroad rostered only five Pacific types. In this view, acquired via eBay, 4-6-2 No. 501 has brought its train to a stop at an unidentified depot, date and photographer also unspecified. As a member of the K1-32 class, No. 501 was erected by ALCo's Brooks works in 1920. She had 69-inch drivers, a boiler pressure of 190 p.s.i., and 22x28-inch cylinders. Weighing 225,500 pounds, she developed 31,720 pounds of tractive effort. Evaporative heating surface was 2346 square feet with 560 square feet of superheating surface, and her grate area measured nearly 49 square feet. By 1949 all members of the class had been retired.