One of the last interurban electric railways, the Illinois Terminal survived into the diesel era as a freight hauler before absorption into the Norfolk & Western system. Before dieselization the IT maintained a small fleet of steam locomotives to serve non-electrified trackage in the East St. Louis area. American Locomotive Company's Richmond works delivered this 0-8-0 switcher to the Florida East Coast in 1925, as its No. 264, but in 1930 the FEC sold the locomotive and two of its classmates to the Illinois Terminal after a reduction in traffic levels rendered their services unnecessary. With dimensions similar to the USRA 0-8-0 design, No. 34 had 51-inch drivers, 25x28-inch cylinders, and 175 p.s.i. of boiler pressure. Her locomotive weight was around 200,000 pounds, and she developed 51,000 pounds of tractive force. Having 47 square feet of grate area, these engines had an evaporative heating surface totaling 2700 square feet, augmented by 640 square feet of superheating surface. Wayne Koch provided the image, photographer and date not specified.