It is an irony that the steam power for passenger trains operating out of Steamtown National Historic Site, maintained by the U.S. National Park Service, consists of two former Canadian locomotives: Canadian National 2-8-2 No. 3254 and Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 No. 2317. My brother, David V. Leonard of Binghamton, New York, took this digital photo of No. 3254 heading a Steamtown train at Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania on January 19, 2008. Mikado No. 3254 belonged to the Canadian National's class S-1-b, built by Canadian Locomotive Company in 1917 for CNR predecessor Canadian Government Railways and numbered 2850-2863. With 27x30-inch cylinders, 63-inch drivers and 180 pounds of boiler pressure, these engines were typical of the Canadian National system's large S-1 class of 327 members (of which six were later converted to 0-8-2s for yard work). No. 3254 weighs 277,550 pounds and produces 53,115 pounds of tractive effort. Click this link for another view by David Leonard.