Nice photo of the 4978 today. This engine was given a top notch restoration
by J. David Conrad in the 1980s, doing all the processes of preservation
that need to be done to static locomotives. Others should be so lucky.
http://skipg.homeip.net/gallery/Chicago-Burlington-Quincy/CB_Q_001
Bob Yarger, Editor
Railway Preservation News (free website)
www.rypn.org
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From: "East Pass" <EastPass@19main.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Last Q Steam To Operate
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> Louis,
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> I took a photo of the 4978's tender sticking out of the
> door of a stall at the Eola Roundhouse while it was being
> moved from Galesburg to Ottawa. Would presume it was put
> there to get some degree of security while they were waiting
> for the right day to move it to Ottawa. While I can say for
> certain it was not under steam and was as cold as can be I do
> not recall whether there was any coal in the tender.
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> While I can not say for certain that it did not move from
> Galesburg under it's own power I can not see any possible
> reason why they would have taken the trouble to do so. That
> would have involved a full inspection and all the paperwork
> and trouble to get a flue time extension. With the expense
> involved in painting it and finding all the missing parts
> we should consider ourselves lucky it was preserved at all.
>
> The 4963 was at Galesburg at that time so they at least had
> one place to go for parts. I wonder how they got the 4000
> patched together as a complete locomotive. When you think
> about it what might have been fairly easy to do in 1958
> would have been much more difficult in 1962 or 1963. Both
> the 4000 and 4978 had been stored outside with little thought
> given to long term care.
>
> Russ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: LZadnichek@aol.com
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, 20 December, 2004 14:52
> Subject: [CBQ] Last Q Steam To Operate
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> December 20, 2004
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> Mr. McCauley - Reference your recent post stating that the 4978 operated
> under its own power from Galesburg to Ottawa in approximately 1963,
where did you
> come by this information? Did you personally witness the O1-a under
steam or
> do you have a photograph of the event? I'd very much like to know. Best
Regards.
>
> Louis Zadnichek II
> Fairhope, AL
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