There was a Write up about this which Mike Martin talks Savanna IL in
the Burlinton Buletin #21 May-June 1965 I believe,
I bought a framed Picture at a Train Show with Three pictures from
this Bulletin.
I was born in 65 so I can't be any other help.
Larry Doub
A little astay from the Q, but has anyone any info on a N&W Steam
that was build and never takin out of the barn? Last one they built,
and was never even watered or coaled.
I hear it is in the N&W remaining Steam Loco building shop out east.
I also heard the when the Current President retiers, this is going to
be taking out and used for Excursions.
Anyway else know anything?
--- In BRHSlist@y..., atsf3460@a... wrote:
> #4960 was used in Savanna during the flood of '65 to move Zephyrs
through the
> floodwaters of the yards .... Jim Boyd has related this story in
Railfan
> magazine more than once since he was chasing flood trains and came
to the
> intersection at Mount Carroll and agonized over whether to go west
to Savanna
> to see if anything was running but he didn't think that could be
possible so
> he went north and caught a Milwaukee detour on the CGW and all the
while the
> #4960 was "sailing" Zephyrs through the floodwaters. At least
that's how I
> remember him telling the story. Supposedly no railfans have shots
of this
> event and the only photograph taken was by a newspaper photographer
and it
> appeared in the Dubuque paper.
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