RE: 1282 - the government report would stand up in court....and I would wager its accuracy over a Folk Ballad issused in early 1926.

As Usual....Stick to the FACTS...CS...stick to the facts as reported.

Cohen, p.243 notes it as 1282

CS Mudcat 23, Oct. 2007 8:55 pm. a friend...thinks... that the number 1262 was on an aging Atlantic type never was a Mikado numbered 1262.... your reference is sketchy....WHO, WHEN, HOW????

Department of Transportation Report Nov. 29, 1925 records:

DOT Paragraph #2
"hauled by engine 1282"

DOT Paragraph #13
"Machinist Gilchrist, located at Sharpsburg, said he had worked on the air brakes on >engine 1282"

DOT Paragraph # 13

"Examination of engine 1282, which is of the 2-8-2 type"

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Consider it as "poetic liscence" let it be "leid" to rest