Milwaukee Road 1004

Milwaukee Road 1004 is a preserved 4-6-0 Ten-wheeler steam locomotive, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in September 1901 as a class B4 four-cylinder Vauclain compound for the Milwaukee Road, which first numbered it 385. It was renumbered 1735 in 1907 and 4335 in 1912, and in February 1920 it was rebuilt as a two-cylinder simple locomotive, reclassified G8 and renumbered 2604, before taking its last number, 1004, in the railroad's 1938 renumbering. Mostly a freight engine, it later served as a yard switcher in Minneapolis, Minnesota and as a weed-scalder along the line. On 16 March 1957 it was fired up to relieve a broken-down motor car on a local passenger run between Austin, Minnesota and La Crosse, Wisconsin, its final revenue assignment, which made it the last steam locomotive retired from the railroad. It was donated to the city of Austin and placed on static display at the fairgrounds, where it remains as the only surviving member of its class and one of only five surviving Milwaukee Road steam locomotives.