Peoria & Eastern ran between Indianapolis and Peoria, and though it functioned as a New York Central System branch it maintained its separate identity into the diesel era. The P&E's steam locomotives were numbered in the double digits. Pacific No. 19, shown here at the Peoria Union Station, was one of three class K14b engines built by Alco in 1911 for the New York Central & Hudson River; assigned to the P&E, they were rebuilt in 1929-30 at its Urbana, Illinois, shops. They weighed 278,900 pounds and exerted 34,530 pounds of tractive effort. A 1940 NYC system roster claims they had a booster adding 11,000 pounds of tractive force, but No. 19's rivet-fabricated trailing truck does not suggest the presence of a booster when this photo was taken. (Later photos of members of the K14 class show the trailing truck as a one-piece casting that could support the bed for a booster engine.) Locomotives of this class had 72-inch drivers, 25x26-inch cylinders, and a boiler pressure of 200 pounds per square inch. No. 19 was the former NYC 3108, and was scrapped in late 1950 upon dieselization of the P&E.