Peoria & Eastern ran between Indianapolis and Peoria, and though it functioned as a New York Central System branch it maintained its separate identity into the diesel era. The P&E's steam locomotives were numbered in the double digits. Pacific No. 19, shown here at the Peoria Union Station, was one of three class K14b engines built by Alco in 1911, and rebuilt in 1929-30. They weighed 276,000 pounds and exerted 34,530 pounds of tractive effort. The 1940 NYC system roster claims they had a booster adding 11,000 pounds of tractive force, although No. 19's rivet-fabricated trailing truck does not suggest the presence of a booster when this photo was taken. (Later photos of members of this group show the trailing truck as a one-piece casting that could support the bed for a booster engine.) Locomotives of this class had 72-inch drivers, 25x26-inch cylinders, and a boiler pressure of 200 pounds per square inch.