Where's the steam loco going?

[alangj]

Sunday afternoon, at about 12:25PM, I spotted a UP train running northbound on the LH CSX track (passing a northbound CSX train on the RH track) that runs through Evergreen Park, IL just southwest of Chicago. What caught my eye was that about the first four cars right behind the three UP diesels were flatcars carrying what looked like a partly dismantled, but in good condition, steam locomotive. I might have missed what was on the first flat (tender trucks maybe?), but I did spot the tender body and loco cab on one flat, and the rest of the body of the steamer on the next flat (from the brief glimpse I got, between the houses across the street from ours, it looked relatively intact and still sitting properly on its wheels - maybe a ten-wheeler or something of that size). If I had to make a guess as to where that train was bound, I'd say that it would come off the CSX at about 77th Street in Chicago and head west into and through the Belt's Clearing Yard, head out on the Belt's track through the east side of LaGrange, and eventually end up at the UP's Proviso Yard. Possibly the UP train could have come off the old C&EI/MP tracks in Dolton, IL and through the CSX's Barr Yard in Riverdale, IL if that helps anyone with the "detective" work.

Out of purely idle curiosity, does anybody know any more about this steamer - where it's from, where it's headed, and whether it's being restored, etc.?

Alan

[Anonymous]

could be going to the Railroad Museum in Union. don't know without more info on what it was, who it belonged to and all that.

[spbed]

Well for sure it was not going to be put into revenue service.

[jsoderq]

FEC 148 - had been in Traverse City MI for many years - lots of talk and a little work on it now they gave up and it is going to a tourist rr or museum in CO. Sorry I don't have the exact name but I didn't keep track of where it is going. I can find out if no one else knows. It is nowhere near operating condition - don't know if it is good enough to restore or not.

[oltmannd]

Here it is in happier times (almost 30 years ago!)

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=13984

[Randy Stahl]

QUOTE: Originally posted by oltmannd

Here it is in happier times (almost 30 years ago!)

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=13984

Don,
Do you recall if the coaches behind the pacific were ERIE stillwell cars?
Randy

[oltmannd]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl

QUOTE: Originally posted by oltmannd

Here it is in happier times (almost 30 years ago!)

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=13984

Don,
Do you recall if the coaches behind the pacific were ERIE stillwell cars?
Randy

I think most were CNJ commuter coaches. I don't recall any Stillwells.

[oskar]

it would have been nice if FEC was still running it




kevin

[alangj]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jsoderq

FEC 148 - had been in Traverse City MI for many years - lots of talk and a little work on it now they gave up and it is going to a tourist rr or museum in CO. Sorry I don't have the exact name but I didn't keep track of where it is going. I can find out if no one else knows. It is nowhere near operating condition - don't know if it is good enough to restore or not.

If you can find out where it's headed, it'd be interesting to see if anyone else spots the movement between Chicago and whereever it'll end up. My sightline of the CSX tracks is about a 40' gap straight up the driveway (and over the top of the garage) between two houses across the street from our kitchen windows, so my view of anything "interesting" on those tracks is, by necessity, rather narrow and quick. To say the least, it was a surprise seeing it go past at the exact time (Sunday lunch) that I was looking out, that I couldn't have seen any #'s or ID (slow reaction time and all that.)

Alan

[Anonymous]

Hmm..something showed up in Cheyenne:

http://www.trainboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/ubb/get_topic/f/77/t/000232.html?

[dehusman]

Its headed for D&RG Hist Soc. in Colorado.

Dave H.

[Anonymous]

Where in CO is the D&RG Historical Society? I would be interested in checking it out. And if the loco really is coming to CO fron Cheyenne does anyone know the possible route and/or time that it might be taking? I would really like to see that going down the rails.

[Anonymous]

I feel so sorry for it being in that condition in public. they should have cover it up in respect. going to take years just to get it displayable and even then i'm weary if it'll be runable, even though they say it's going to.