January 26, 2016
Hol and Group - I have a question as to the location where the attached
photograph was taken. The night photograph shows Class M-4 (later Class M-4-A)
6310 and three unidentified sister 2-10-4 type locomotives at an unknown
location. I have heard over the years that the location was either the old
Hawthorne Yard (now Cicero, IL) or at the Galesburg, IL, engine terminal
and roundhouse.
I've always understood, rightly or wrongly, that the Class M-4 locomotives,
while originally intended for powering coal trains in southern Illinois, quickly
found themselves operating system wide from Chicago to Denver on heavy drag
freight trains. If that was the case, then is it possible this quartet
of 2-10-4 types could've been photographed at Cicero? The image would
date to 1933.
If not Cicero, then the location would almost certainly be Galesburg
where the Class M-4 locomotives congregated for use on coal trains. This
image, cropped to show only three locomotives, was used on the front cover
of "the Burlington," a souvenir of the CB&Q and Associated Lines
handed out to those attending the Century of Progress Exhibition
in Chicago, IL, during 1933. Comment appreciated - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL