Couple of additional points. According to a
table in the 1879-80 Illinois Railroad & Warehouse Commission Report, the average
life of an engine was 18 years. Plenty of time between the 1858 list and 1882
for another 275.
Re. the Bureau River Bridge, there is a photo of the bridge after the widening
work, in the 1900 IR&WC Report
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101065139113;view=1up;seq=107
together with photos of the Princeton, Il. track work at seq=26 and seq=64
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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Plate Tintype Photo CB Q Railroad RR Train Engine L...
Just to throw a spanner in the works, the
275 built by Pittsburgh in 1882 may not have been the first use of that number,
as the Burlington had 388 engines at the end of 1881 and almost all of them
would have been class A so it appears that numbers were being reused. For
example, 256 was built in 1886, four years after 275, so an earlier
“275” is possible.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ