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PM Berkshire #1239 at New Richmond, Summer, 1948

 

Pere Marquette Berkshire #1239, the last of the PM Berkshires built, sitting on the siding at New Richmond during the summer of 1948.

The stiff 1.23% northward grade beginning just north of this location and extending to East Saugatuck made it necessary to either use helper engines or to double the hill. Number 1239, a Class N-2 built in 1944 for the PM, spent part of its service life in helper service at New Richmond. It was retired in the early 1950s and scrapped in 1961.

Photo by Willard Benedict

 

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