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(erielack) K1 in Korea

Many thanks for the substantive responses on this question.  It is an
historical fact -- not any legend -- that an Erie K1 went to Korea. It is
also a paradoxical "fact" that in our circle anyway no one factually knows
what happened to that engine -- making for a very intriguing, unanswered
historical question. If there are no photos of the engine in "preservation",
there are also none after it arrived in Korea in 1954.  If there are no
records of its service, there are also no records of its destruction either.
Such ambiguity naturally fuels rumor and fantasy and the search for closure.
That is what makes historians!
Joe Braun


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