Central of Georgia K class

A class of eight dual service 4-8-4 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works and delivered to the Central of Georgia Railway in October 1943, numbered 451 through 458 and nicknamed the Big Apples by crews on the western end of the railroad. Wartime traffic, including troop trains to Fort Benning, had worn out the existing 4-8-2 power, and because the War Production Board restricted new designs, the engines were patterned after the Southern Pacific GS-2 type. They hauled trains such as the Seminole and the Flamingo between Albany, Georgia and both Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia, handling as many as seventeen passenger cars. After ten years of service they were withdrawn in 1953 and scrapped, number 451 following in 1959.