It would be nice if you could somehow post those photos. I know slide
posting is a bit more complicated than just photos, but you have some
interesting material. I've heard the 5620 was held as a possible parts
source for the 5632 until about 1964, but not sure if that is true.
----- Original Message -----
From: <clipperw@EarthLink.net>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2591
> Bob,
>
> In the later years, (after Q closed the reclamation plant at Eola),
> most, if not all, of the Lincoln assigned locomotives were scrapped at
> Sterling, IL. I have a sad slide, taken in Illinois, of 5626 and 5627
> coupled back to back without tenders and stripped of appliances
> (headlights, bells, etc.) enroute to Sterling. There is also a similar
> photo in the BRHS Bulletin on the hudsons of 4002 and 4003 coupled cab
> to cab (no tenders and with the backs of the cab roofs cut off) headed
> to Sterling. In addition, I have a slide of the 5620 with tender, but
> otherwise stripped, at Galesburg enroute to Sterling. I don't know for
> sure, but I would suspect that all of the remaining Lincoln assigned
> locomotives went this same way in the mid '50s to the early '60s.
>
> Bill Barber
>
> On Wednesday, November 23, 2005, at 08:35 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:11:41 -0500
> > From: "Bob Yarger" <ryarger@rypn.org>
> > Subject: Locomotive scrapping question
> >
> > We all know that many of the CB&Q steam locomotives were gathered at
> > Galesburg, to be later towed to Sterling, to be scrapped.
> >
> > But what was done with the ones stored at Lincoln? Were they also
> > taken
> > to Galesburg, or sent elsewhere for scrap? Were many cut up in
> > Lincoln by
> > the RR itself?
>
>
>
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>
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