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16 (Dec. 1955): 18-20. The last time I encountered them was around 1960 when I saw one being hauled through DeKalb, Illinois, in a Chicago & North Western freight train destined, I presume, for scrapping at Northwestern Steel & Wire in Sterling, Illinois. In the summer of 1953, as mentioned above, a crane was working on the westbound track near Bellevue, and trains were being diverted to the eastbound main between Bellevue and Nichols Yard in Battle Creek. See details. regarding whether it can be reasonably restored to operability. In January 1929, the Grand Trunk Western March 1939 with boxpok drivers only on the second driver axle, while on She heads train No. 3732, 3740 and 3748 above. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Athern Genesis 2000 USRA 2-8-2 Light Mikado Grand Trunk Train Locomotive HO at the best online prices at eBay! of steam locomotives used in North America . [5][1], After sitting in storage for a few months, No. Accordingly, in 1925 that the Grand Trunk Western No. No. She sports a shiny paint job recently applied at the Battle Creek shops, including white tires and the tilted GTW herald on the tender. 6329 during the summer of 1953, including the one below in which the 4-8-4 pauses just east of Bellevue with an eastbound movement. No. Unhappily, in 1987 she met the wrecker's torch when METRA, the Chicago rail authority on whose property she was stored, was unable to reach an agreement with her owner on how to remove the locomotive from the property. Newton: Carstens Publications, 1982: 85. 2681 poses in Middleton, Michigan, on the Greenville branch, in June 1954. More information: Hocking Valley Scenic Railway. To see a list of Grand Trunk Western locomotives as of 1938-1942, most of which were still active in the early 1950s, visit our GTW Roster. Drawing of Sugar Express, February 25: Hocking Valley Steam Train Special However, when I came across No. 5629 View source A postcard from the late 1960s showing No. 6039 to the Central Vermont Railway, the United States, six of which were engines of the St. Louis and San The locomotives shown here belonged to class N-4-d. This group had 26x30-inch cylinders, a driver diameter of 73 inches, and a boiler pressure of 210 pounds per square inch. These locomotives pulled with 52,000 pounds of tractive effort. 0-6-0 steam locomotive #3 leads two trips from Nelsonville, Ohio acquisition of still heavier steam power, and later, diesel locomotives, Normally the local freight through Bellevue, Michigan, was headed by a Consolidation. 5629 being scrapped at Blue Island, IL on July 14, 1987. Like Pacific 5629, this engine received a larger tender and was featured in fan trip service at the head of a number of railfan specials in the 1960s and 1970s. Tractive Effort (in lbs. Throughout its history GTW has shared the same type and class designations of its locomotives with parents Grand Trunk Railway and Canadian National. 4-6-2 Pacific type and 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives also built by Baldwin and Alco in the 1920s and 4-6-0 Ten-Wheelers built around 1900 began in mainline service but later were eventually both found mostly on branch lines and mixed train service. Several groups, including the Illinois Railway Museum and the Mid-Continent Railway Museum, stepped in to try and save it, but soon realized it would be too costly since it could no longer move on its own wheels. Note: The accuracy and accessibility of the resulting translation is not guaranteed. It also appeares on the back cover of the Spring 2022 issue of The Semaphore, magazine of the Grand Trunk Western Historical Society. Here we found J-3-a classmates Nos. Seller information. The K-4 Pacifics were a variation of the USRA light Pacific design; they had 67 square feet of grate area, an evaporative heating surface of 3340 square feet, and 795 square feet of superheating surface. 5030 in the park taken in August 2015. Jeddo Coal 0-4-0 steam locomotive #85 pulls three excursions each day - Walkersville, The Grand Trunk Western (GTW) was one of three notable U.S. properties owned by Canadian National (others being Central Vermont and Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific). 6323, which is famous for being the last GTW steam engine to run on GTW rails, under GTW ownership. It was taken from a car pacing on a parallel highway, evidently by Tom Miller of Toledo, Ohio. Both of these Battle Creek terminal photos appear in I. E. Quastler's book Grand Trunk Western Railroad: An Illustrated History (R&I Publishing, 2009). Sponsored Links Santa Fe No. 3751 | Locomotive Wiki | Fandom The bell and number board, missing in the photograph, have since been reattached. Western Railroad engines that have survived in the United States, of Grand Trunk Western #6039 Historical Marker - hmdb.org The main visible difference between the CNR and GTW classes was the design of the air intake ahead of the stack. ]. During the 1940s, No. Edaville Railroad at South Carver, Massachusetts, on Sales Order No. named Eilenberger recorded Engine No. Western Railroad, 1938-1961. the practice on the Canadian National in an attempt to keep the smoke In 1946, the 6325 gained notoriety for pulling United States President Harry S. Truman's election campaign train through the state of Michigan. Streamlining of steam engines for passenger service enjoyed a brief vogue in North America after diesel streamliners were introduced in the 1930s. The run drew thousands of rail enthusiasts. By that date, the engine had USA. 6323 and 6313 above and 6328 below. Mikado No. Builders Number: 38441, Cylinders: 23x28 Two days of photo shoots with visiting SP 4-6-0 steam locomotive #18 - Laws, 2023 Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust. In 1960, it was sold to Richard Jensen of Chicago, IL for approximately $9,540.40, the scrap value of the locomotive at the time. designs around the stacks of these engines, following the popularity of [1] After being retired in the late 1950s, No. 159. This engine may be seen at the head of a fast freight in Chicago's south side on John Szwajkart's video The Chicago Collection. His letter was read publicly at the ceremony. Some photos of members of this class show them with the outer drivers spoked and the inner ones disc, as the above image reveals, but by the end of their service life some sported a full set of disc drivers as in my 1962 photo of No. Here we see No. Grand Trunk Western Railroad 4-8-2 Locomotive No. Word of No. New York: 6325 could easily handle sixteen passenger cars or eighty car hotshot freights with equal ease on the Chicago division. The year 2004 saw a huge event in Ohio Central's steam operations when "Trainfestival 2004" took place from July 30 to August 1, 2004, in Dennison, Ohio. Related photos: In 1999, 46 years after I photographed her at Durand, I posed in front of No. Builder's Number: 58463, Cylinders (diameter x stroke in inches): 26 x 30 Narrow Gauge Railroad Grand Trunk Western No. CNR steam locomotives that serviced this country of ours. Picture 1 of 1. More information: U.S. Sugar 4-6-2 #148 leads excursions from Sebring and Lake Placid, Florida. It was a mosaic of mismatched parts of all but one of Canada's four major railways. To order tickets click on the link below to reserve your tour slot today! In the scene below, taken at Battle Creek in the summer of 1953, P-5-b No. headed to abide by the timetables, a costly practice that required an The run drew thousands of rail enthusiasts. Photos, June 3-4: Walkersville Southern Railroad Steam Trains My photo (above, left) was used in their online promotional poster. I took the above photo of No. Illinois and was in its later years the only railroad that provided Grand Trunk Western: 4-6-2 "Pacific" Date Built: June 1925 6325 on static display at the Age of Steam Roundhouse in April 2022. Tractive Effort: 34,669 lbs FEBRUARY 2023. 6039 at Elsdon terminal in March 1939 with boxpok wheels only on the second driving axle, while on September 21, 1941, it was reportedly caught having the boxpok wheels on the first, second, and third axles, but not on the fourth axle. 5629 to the Rock Island Railroad's Burr Oak Yard in Blue Island, IL. Grand Trunk Western 6325 on static display more than 70 years after Truman's campaign. Built in February 1942 by the American Locomotive Company (Alco), 6325 was one of 25 4-8-4 "Northern" type locomotives in the Grand Trunk Western's U-3-b class. If it It ran the last scheduled steam train in the United States on March 27, 1960 on its train #21 from Detroit's Brush Street Station north to Durand Union Station. In 1967 and 1968, it traveled to Baraboo, WI to pull the Circus World Museum's Schlitz Circus Train. At the end of steam operations, the GTW sent many of its retired locomotives to Northwestern Steel & Wire in Sterling, Illinois, for scrapping. 6040 in Detroit on September 2, 1958, as shown below. During that time, it was leased to the Central Vermont Railway for freight service, only to become one of the very last steam locomotives to regularly operate in the state of Vermont. CANADIAN NATIONAL & GRAND TRUNK RAILROAD STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN - YouTube Third, during the Roaring Twenties passenger traffic on the Grand Locomotives built for the Grand Trunk at the Point St.Charles shops will be identified in the "Builder" with the mark "GTR". CNR steam locomotives that serviced this country of ours. 5629 to operating condition for use on fan trips around the area. The engine was donated to the City of Jackson, Michgan,in 1957 and is on display in North Lawn Park just off Lansing Ave. Date Built: 1910 Picture Information. As of 2022, No. automatic or mechanical stokers, and they were the first locomotives on 6325 for example, were in 2002, where it pulled many regular trips as well as some photo festivals where it was coupled to a train and was run along Ohio Central's track at various places for photographs, runbys or just normal train chasing. Here is a copy of a train order issued by the Battle Creek dispatcher on June 26, 1953, to the engineer of the work crane, No. Have one to sell? 8380 and its eleven sisters in class P-5-g were erected by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1929. With a locomotive weight of 403,000 pounds and a combined engine-and-tender length of 96 feet, the U-3-b class was still one of the smaller types of 4-8-4s used on the North American railway system. As a result I never saw them in operation, though I photographed No. S-19802, Montreal, Quebec, June 17, 1959.". No. Purchased in 1993 by Jerry Jacobson of the Ohio Central Railroad, the locomotive sat in storage for six years until being restored to operating condition on July 31, 2001, for use on excursion trains across the Ohio Central System. 5629 made its debut pulling a trip over the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad, for which it was painted in B&O colors. [10] In June 2010, No. Sister locomotive No. 5030-5048 were built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1912 for GTW's predecessor, the Grand Trunk Railway; No. Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Grand Trunk Western No. The grate is 50.62 sq ft and total heating surface is 3,003 sq ft including 578 sq ft superheating. 6325 has one surviving sister engine, No. (Photo: DogsRNice via CC by 4.0) Early Years for the Grand Trunk Western 6325. It was retired from revenue service in 1957 and later restored to operating condition for excursion service in 1991 by the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society. 100. Vol. To span the gap between these assignments he filled in as minister of the Methodist Church in Middleton, Michigan, on the Grand Trunk Western's Greenville branch. Richard Leonard's Steam Locomotive Archive - Grand Trunk Western 5030 was captured on movie film by Jerry Carson and may be seen in the Green Frog video Steam in the 50's. During their careers, these engines received a number 6325 was retired in 1959 it was donated to the City of Battle Creek, Michigan, for display. vestibuled or all-weather cabs. This translation tool is for your convenience only. East Broad Top Railroad Photos, April 29: Ashland Train Day Above we see No. Last edited on 11 February 2023, at 06:56, "Business Firms To Be Solicited for 'Old 6325' Aid", "Into the Roundhouse: '6325' Finds Winter Home", "Old 6325 Making Last Run July 9 To Its New Home", "Rail 'Veep' Here Sunday: Gaffney To Present 'Old 6325' to City", "HST Likes Steamers But He Can't Attend 'Old 6325' Dedication", "Engine '6325': A mighty relic suffers neglect", "Putting History Back On Track: Fixing Old 6325 is labor of love", "Fall rail excursions include New River Gorge, Amish Country", "The locomotive is in great shape and wouldn't take too much as normally would to restore but for the time being the locomotive is on static display inside our roundhouse. Text and photo images2013 Richard Leonard. 5030 is a Class J-3-b 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1912 for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad. SHREVEPORT HOUSTON & GULF RAILROAD 4-6-0 #5 ORIGINAL CAMDEN TEXAS LOGGING PHOTO (#404179167035). [This fine book is a principal source on No. No. Tractive Effort: 42,000 lbs RM 2F5J0AR - Grand Trunk Railway 4-4-0 locomotive, no. 1930). 76 (Former GTW 8376) in May, 1977. Click to enlarge. Grand Trunk Western Railroad - Locomotives - Steam - LiquiSearch This left-side view highlights her Worthington type BL feedwater heater, mounted behind the air pump. Builders Number: 46941, Cylinders: 20x28 Refresh your browser window to try again. After the new shiny black sheet of boiler jacketing was replaced, Steamtown's boilermaker, Mark St Aubin, took two and a half days to reassemble the piping. Instead of cutting them up, the scrappers converted a number of these GTW 0-8-0s to oil burners, added auxiliary water tenders and kept them around to switch the plant until 1980. 7730, the 1929 Brill boxcab unit that switched the ferry docks in Milwaukee). 56 from Muskegon to Detroit is 4-6-2 No. 58463, Cylinders: 26 x 30, Drive Wheels: 73, Weight on Drivers: 231,370, Boiler Pressure: 210, Tractive Effort: 49,590. 6405 was the last of the U-4-b class to remain in service. Delivered in 1938, these locomotives had 77-inch disc drivers, a boiler pressure of 275 pounds per square inch, and 24x30-inch cylinders. reported to have received vanadium steel main frames and "boxpok" drive As a member of the dual service U-3-b class, the 6325 handled heavy passenger and freight work for the Grand Trunk Western. Unable to run the locomotive, it was placed in storage at the Amtrak yard near Union Station in Chicago while Jensen was hospitalized. Knowing that the locomotive was indeed going to be scrapped, Jensen and his friends took parts off of it and gave them to local railfans. 6039 was reported to have received vanadium steel main frames and boxpok driving wheels, but not all of them were applied at the same. Edmunds: Pacific Fast Mail, 1977: 4-9, D&RGW #315, May 28: Cumbres & Toltec Locomotive 168 Memorial Weekend Special However, two of No. Due to poor ballast conditions the train jumped the tracks a mile west of Durand, Michigan. 6325 had sat in static display with very little maintenance. C ANADIAN N ATIONAL R AILWAYS. No. For more information: and special excursions; if it cannot be restored mechanically, it should 6038 in commuter service. In 1984, No. light Mikado design; class includes 15 GT and 25 GTW locomotives. This photo was taken in the summer of 1953. Gordon Chappell, A Canadian National Railways folio locomotive diagram sheet On the GTW, it was the ultimate in modern steam power. 6323 is said to be that last steam locomotive used in main line passenger service in the U.S., and made her last run under GTW ownership on September 20, 1961. 6323 at Durand, Michigan, in May, 1954, while it was temporarily separated from the Maple Leaf so diesel switcher 7904 (visible behind 6323's tender) could switch a car for the Detroit connection. 6039 was often seen on fast freight trains beginning in the early 1930s. ageofsteamroundhouse.org/events/", "RailPictures.Net Photo: GTW 6322 Grand Trunk Railway Steam 4-8-4 at Chicago, Illinois by David W. DeVault", Steamlocomotive.com webpage on the GTW 4-8-4's, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grand_Trunk_Western_6325&oldid=1138723189, This page was last edited on 11 February 2023, at 06:56. Nos. 6313 and 6333. 78 erected in 1938, the GTW's first diesel switcher (not counting No. Railway Winter Steam Spectacular. 8380 in the yards at Durand, Michigan during the summer of 1953. As a result, local freight and branch line duties were still performed by the GTW's ageing stable of lighter steam power. The Grand Trunk Western made two other notable No. They weighed 285,500 pounds and developed 40,750 pounds of tractive force. The U-4-b class had a grate area of 73.7 square feet; they had 3860 square feet of evaporative heating surface, and their superheating surface totaled 1530 square feet. Everett Railroad 5633, displays the web-spoke drivers that seem to have been applied only to this member of the trio. Grand Trunk Western No. Galloping Goose # 5 makes round-trips to Cascade Canyon - Durango, Colorado Grand Trunk Western Railroad 4-8-2 Locomotive No. 6039 was moved to Riverside, to become an exhibit of Blount's new Steamtown, U.S.A. collection. The People's Railway. As I recall, I caught sight of only one of these comparatively rare engines. However, this was later removed for proving to be ineffective. 3748 appears briefly in the Herron video/DVD Glory Machines of the Grand Trunk Western. 6039. U.S.R.A. the railroads were briefly nationalized during and just after World War