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From: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:23:07 -0400
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October 8, 2015
 
Hol - Got sidetracked again... I've pondered over my date. My negatives are 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 meaning I took the photographs with my baby Speed Graphic that had a 120 roll film back. I did not upgrade to the Speed Graphic until my junior year at Downers Grove High School. That was 1963. I remember the year as I bought the camera "on time" from a local camera store without my parents knowing about it, but that's another story. So, I took the NWS&W images between 1963 and 1965 when I joined the Navy. The date has got to be 1963, may be even 1964, but not 1961. I'm going to call it 1963. So, 5609 must've been really slow in leaving the Galesburg deadline, or it sat at NWS&W for quite a while before being cut-up. I had notes from that era, but I have no idea now of where they may be or if they even still exist. Lesson to rail fan photographers in this digital era, make detailed notes as you may need them 50 years later! Lastly, I'm embedding below from my digital collection a color image of 5609 taken on the Cicero, IL, ready track that's dated some time in 1956, probably the last year the O-5-A was in service.
 
 
A sad end at NWS&W for a truly noble locomotive. Best Regards - Louis   
 

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October 6, 2015
 
Hol - Whereas Galesburg and Lincoln deadline images of retired Q steam are fairly common, actual images of Q steam being scrapped inside the gates of a scrap yard are relatively rare. I took the attached image in July 1961 at Northwestern Steel & Wire in Sterling, IL. Shown is Class O-5-A No. 5609 in the process of being cut-up. The locomotive had been separated from its tender at far left and the torch crew had started cutting off the rods and cross head. I don't recall which day of the week it was, but from the lack of workmen, I'd assume it was on a Saturday. The Corbin book says 5609 was built by the Q at the West Burlington Shops in September 1936 and sold for scrap in May 1961. It was not quite 25 years old when scrapped and had been out-of-service, I would think, for about five years. I've understood that the Class O-5 locomotives had a design life of 30 to 35 years depending upon shopping cycles, so diesels cut short their service careers by a decade or more. In the background is the C&NW mainline and the cab of a passing ALCO switcher can be seen. From visiting NWS&W a number of times with my Dad who was Chicago Division Superintendent at the time, I developed a strong interest in the scrap and steel industries resulting in my later making a rewarding and interesting career in the scrap business. If any one else has images of Q steam actually being scrapped, I'd enjoy seeing them. By far the best collection of images showing Q steam power being scrapped at NWS&W appear in noted railfan photographer Ron Zeil's 1963 book Twilight Of Steam Locomotives. I treasure my copy. Another one of my images tomorrow. Best Regards - Louis
 
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL      


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