Sometime during 1931 three C&S C-3H Ten-Wheelers (326, 328 and 329) were leased for use on the Centerville Division, where presumably they handled local passenger runs. But the Depression quickly reduced business, and the 329 is seen here stored at Centerville on Feb. 19, 1933, awaiting an upturn in business.
When the initial business upturn came the 329 was moved first to the Galesburg Division and then to the Hannibal Division, where by the end of 1934 it was stored unserviceable, quite likely never to run again as gas-electric motor cars replaced steam on local passenger runs. But in August and September 1937 the 329 got a new life, overhauled and placed in service on Galesburg Division trains 48-10 and 11-47 operating between Galesburg, Yates City and Peoria. Here the freshly shopped locomotive, now trailing a Burlington roll-top tender, poses at Peoria Union Depot on Sept. 29, 1937, just after entering service again. She would last on this run into September 1942 before being returned to the C&S and scrapped at Denver on Dec. 29, 1942.
