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 Post subject: Rock Island 801
PostPosted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 8:35 pm 

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At the Chicago RR Fair in 1948. This was actually Warren & Ouachita Valley No. 1, from an Arkansas shortline that the CR&IP absorbed in the late-1940s. As they had scrapped all their older steam power and needed an "old time" looking engine for the Fair, they traded a Whitcomb 44-tonner for the 4-6-0, which arrived with a wooden "dining car" sporting an elaborate paint job. By the 1950s, the engine was renumbered No. 9 and usually stored in the stone roundhouse at Herington, Kansas. Its last outing under steam was in Oklahoma, about 1958. Sold to a private owner, it moved to Mid-Continent about 1966, and operated there for some years. It and the car are now displayed at another site in Wisconsin.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman ... num=P04554

The dining car, which may or may not have been an actual dining car in real life.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman ... num=P04538


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