Re: [CBQ] 0-6-0 No. 3?

["Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>]

February 23, 2021

 

Bob - Evidently, NWS&W purchased all 10 of the Class G-5 0-6-0's, but only put three back into service to switch the steel mill in Sterling, IL. The remaining seven were all scrapped. These 0-6-0's replaced several worn out ex-C&NW 0-6-0's. The Class G-5's then were later replaced by the ex-GTW 0-8-0's that some of us witnessed in service during the mid-to-late 1960s.

 

There was one other Q steam locomotive that was sold to NWS&W for scrap, but was also used briefly as a switch engine. Reportedly,  a single unknown Class O-1-A 2-8-2 in operating condition had its pony and trailing trucks removed and turned into an 0-8-0. This experiment was not successful as the switcher turned out to be prone to derailing and it was later scrapped.

 

NWS&W also used several Class M-4-A 2-10-4's and a single Class O-1-A 2-8-2 as stationary boilers to supply peak demand steam to the steel mill.  There are images of the 2-10-4's in the BRHS Flickr Gallery. Over time as the Q cleaned out their Galesburg, IL, deadline, all the condemned locomotives there made their final trip to Sterling cut into the local freight - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II   

Fairhope, AL

     

 

In a message dated 2/23/2021 5:12:42 PM Central Standard Time, holpennywagner@msn.com writes:

 

Bob and List:

 

I was wrong in my previous statement.  In checking my records I find that, although Corbin listed only one of the 10 G-5s and being sold for scrap, in fact all 10 were sold for scrap, not scrapped by the company.  And at least three of them ended up in service for Northwestern Steel & Wire at Sterling.  NWS&W's practice in numbering locomotives was to simply paint out existing locomotive numbers, leaving only a single numeral between 1 and 9.  In the case of the G-5s, they painted out the "50" of the three they kept in service for a time and thus Q 503, 504 and 506 became NWS&W 3, 4 and 6.

 

Sorry for misstating the Q number of the engine in the photograph, and thanks to Louis Zadnichek for catching my mistake.

 

Hol

 

 

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From: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 1:53 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] 0-6-0 No. 3?

 

Bob:  

 

Yes, that's definitely the former Q 504, which worked for several years as NWS&W No. 3 at Sterling.

 

Hol

 

 

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From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of Bob Yarger via groups.io <bobyar2001=yahoo.com@groups.io>
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 12:55 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io>
Subject: [CBQ] 0-6-0 No. 3?

 

Here is a puzzler.  The CB&Q got ten USRA 0-6-0's from Cooke in 1919.  All were listed as scrapped in 1954 except No. 504, listed as "sold for scrap 12-54".  They were class G5, Nos. 500-509.  This engine definitely has a Burlington "clock"-type headlight, so I wonder if the 504 escaped scrapping to work somewhere else (Northwest Steel & Wire at Sterling, IL?) before finally being cut up?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0b/0d/3b/0b0d3b01e6e916d7f3c2cd2ee0163e49.jpg

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