This photo of 4-6-2 No. 3328 (renumbered to 4728 in 1936) was taken in Butler, Indiana, but the photographer's identity is unspecified. This locomotive was a member of class K3n, erected by the American Locomotive Company's Brooks works in 1918. The tractive effort for this class was 30,900 pounds, to which a booster applied on some examples added 9710 pounds. The original rivet-fabricated trailing truck was replaced by the one-piece casting, as shown here, which provided a bed for a booster engine, and locomotives so equipped weighed 290,200 pounds. Otherwise the dimensions of the K3n class were identical with those of the K3p class, as given for No. 4707.

Before the advent of the famous Hudson type, Pacifics like No. 4728 headed the premier trains of the New York Central's passenger fleet, including the Twentieth Century Limited, and were featured in this role on calendars issued by the railroad. (For one of these calendar paintings by Walter L. Greene, click here.) Butler, a small city in rural northeast Indiana, was not a stop for the Central's faster long-distance trains, so this photo shows No. 3328 (4728) heading a westbound local — the type of service to which the Pacifics were assigned after the Hudsons usurped their position on the premier "varnish." No. 4728 was retired and cut up in 1950.