I also acquired, on eBay, this view of exhibition engine 35 tucked in ahead of the waycar of an eastbound freight at Naperville in February 1933, enroute to display at the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago. The steps to allow public access to the cab are in the tender, and the long slatted wooden pilot is not doubt in there too. The locomotive should not have made it east of the Aurora shops lettered for the B&MR in Neb. Turned out of the Denver shops as an exhibition engine patterned after the original B&MR 35, which was built at the Plattsmouth shops, the faux 35 was completed just in time to pull a two-car passenger train into Denver Union Depot on May 25, 1932, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the railroad's arrival in Denver. The cars it pulled on that occasion were the baggage car and coach that had been restored for use with Great Northern's own exhibition engine, another 4-4-0, this one named "William Crooks." Both passenger cars carried full "Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska" lettering on their letterboards for the occasion and for subsequent display in McCook and possibly other towns along the Denver extension. The locomotive also made appearances in Lincoln and Omaha bearing the B&MR initials, but when the 35 was sent east the next year for exhibit at the Century of Progress the Q polished it up at Aurora and changed the lettering on the cab to a more appropriate CB&Q. Maybe the change in initials was an afterthought, done at the Century of Progress after somebody saw the engine and asked by it was lettered for the former Nebraska subsidiary instead of the Q itself. Whatever the case, the engine would wear CB&Q initials until the mid-1950s, when both engine and tender received a much flashier paint scheme than they had ever worn in "real life" and the tender was lettered Hannibal & St. Joseph R.R., with the name "Missouri" appearing on the cab sides. Ironic, since A-2 No. 359, which was used to create the 35, had begun life as H&StJ 66, built at the Aurora shops in 1892.
Hol
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