Mainstays of the Milwaukee Road's freight service prior to the introduction of the 4-8-4s were the 100 locomotives of class L3, 2-8-2s of the heavy USRA design. No. 302 appearing here at Linton, Indiana at an unspecified date, was erected in 1918 by the American Locomotive Company's Brooks works as No. 8610. With 63-inch drivers, she had 27x32-inch cylinders and produced 190 p.s.i. of boiler pressure. Locomotive weight was 320,000 pounds and tractive force 59,801 pounds. No. 302 belonged to a group rebuilt with a Delta trailing truck with a booster that raised the tractive effort to 62,949 pounds; these engines were reclassified to L3a. Other specifications are given on the following page for No. 306 of the class. The photo, included in the collection of Clifford "Mike" Southard, comes to our Archive courtesy of the Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Museum in Genoa, Illinois. No. 302 was retired and scrapped in 1953.