Although initially used as main line passenger power by predecessor Grand Trunk Railway, the GTW's class J-3-a Pacifics spent their later service life hauling local and branch line freight trains, an assignment in which their relatively low 69-inch drivers came in handy. When I photographed No. 5048 at Perrinton, Michigan, in July 1954, she was in charge of the daily eastbound movement on the Greenville Branch, known locally as the "Turkey Trail." These 4-6-2s alternated with class N-4-d 2-8-0s in this assignment. No. 5048's original Grand Trunk number was 118, and she met the scrapper's torch in 1960.