#771 is an MK-5 Class Mikado type (2-8-2) locomotive, one of twenty-five of the class built for the Texas & New Orleans Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA, in 1913 (#750-#774), although they were originally lettered for the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad, like the T&NO, another Southern Pacific subsidiary. Twenty more of this handsome class were built in 1916 at Alco's Brooks Locomotive Works in Patterson, NJ (#775-#794). A further twelve were built at the T&NO shops in Algiers, TX, between 1919 and 1921 (#738-749)
With a 16' 6" driver wheelbase and engine wheelbase of 35' 2", #771 weighs 285,950 lbs, 213,380 lbs on its 63" drivers. It has Walschaert valve gear and 26" x 28" cylinders. The grate is 70.4 sq ft and the firebox 235 sq ft. An oil burner with a total heating surface of 4,839 sq ft, including 865 sq ft superheating, the boiler had a Worthington S or SA feedwater heater and Nathan Simplex Lifting Injector. Operating at a boiler pressure of 210 psi it delivered 53,629 lbs tractive effort.
The tender weighs 156,100 lbs light and has a capacity of 9,000 gallons of water and 2,940 gallons of oil.
#771 was donated to the City of Victoria, TX, in 1955.
The City of Victoria sold the locomotive to the Grapevine Vintage Railroad in 2001 for $10.00 and it is now on display in Grapevine on W Dallas Rd. The Grapevine plans to restore it to operation.
