Soo Line B-4 Class

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Soo Line B-4 class were 0-6-0 steam locomotives constructed for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway (Soo Line) by the American Locomotive Company. Six (#344-349) were built at their Schenectady plant in 1915, with a further five (#350-354) being constructed by their Brooks plant in Dunkirk, New York in 1920. They were the last, and largest design of purpose-built switch engines that the Soo Line owned, any heavier switching duties were performed by down-graded 2-8-0 freight engines. All were still on the active roster in May 1953, but all had been retired by the end December 1954 when the railroad completed its dieselization.