Builder's photo:

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?o ... anColl.jpg

Interesting period shot with the 17:

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?o ... anColl.jpg

This loco is the sister of Lake Street Elevated #9 which is at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis. Of the 400 or so Forney type locos used on elevated lines in New York, Brooklyn (independent until about 1899) and Chicago it is the only one preserved in a museum. It was taken back to Chicago for the centennial of the Loop Elevated in 1997 after a cosmetic restoration a few years earlier. Only five other former elevated Forneys survive, three derilicts in Alaska, one derelict in a Louisiana swamp, all from New York, and one from the South Side Elevated in Chicago stuffed and mounted in Cuba near a sugar mill.

Sorry, I thought the surviving one was the 10. Apparently not.

Dear Bob:
Sorry, this is one I was wrong about.
Ron Goldfedder at MOT researched their loco and found that it was No. 9. The proof? A builders plate from No. 9 collected at Rusk, Texas where the loco was used for a while.
J.David

J. David -

No problem; you can rectify the error in the NEW edition(s) of "The Steam Locomotive Directory." And when will that be coming out?

Les

Lake Street #9 managed to keep one of its builder's plates until it arrived in Rusk, TX during WW II. When the museum got the loco the person who helped arrange this also knew who took this plate off the loco. MOT was eventually able to work out a trade. When we restored the engine we found the same builder's bumber stamped on the rods and other parts to confirm it was #9. Now if we could only find the bell, which also came off in Rusk.