Builder's photo of this fine 4-4-2, long in need of care at St. Louis:

http://www.cnwhs.org/memberphotos/displ ... um=5&pos=2

The link above sends you to a series of more than 200 photographs, I searched through them and found the one the OP was talking about:

http://www.cnwhs.org/memberphotos/displ ... fullsize=1

The C&NW #1015 now:

http://rgusrail.com/album/moslmtyard/cnw_1015_01.jpg


I find it amazing how much the locomotive changed over its life, with a new cab, tender, leading truck, trailing truck, and I think its boiler as well.

She sure is pretty! Lets get some money together to have a nice cosmetic restoration done!

When the engine was originally donated to the MOT back in the day, it came without a tender.

Definitely a flatland locomotive with those high-stepping wheels. Steamlocomotive.com reports it is undergoing a cosmetic restoration.

She's not currently in any sort of restoration. Must be a misunderstanding on their part, as the MOT website had a donation link to raise funds for a restoration. Nothing ever became of it sadly.

The loco was the first one at MOT and was bought by one of the founding members for the museum in 1946. It came with its tender but the museum was so hard up for money and the tender in bad shape so they scrapped it a few years later for the money it brought. The tender now with it was obtained from the C&NW years later when the earlier action was seen as a mistake. It is a different type but one that was used by this class of loco over the years on the C&NW.

Ron,

Do you know if there there any existing photos of the original tender 1015 came to MOT with?

I'd like to know if it was like the one in she was originally built with.

There are photos and also some early brochures that used them. The oldest photo I have seen showed a tender much like the one now behind it, with a raised coal space instead of the flat one in the builder's photo.

I am certain that this loco was captured on film in service on a branchline train in Wisconsin. I recall a photo that was published in Trains in the late 1940's. My collection is incomplete, so I haven't been able to find it. Maybe somebody else can locate it.

Tom

C&NW 4-4-2 #482 was filmed in 1946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYTkqkqU1Gg

looks like some bump damage to the pilot from the car ahead

The tender in the film is just like the one the 1015 had when it came to MOT. I don't know if it was a rebuilding of the original or a replacement.

The wood holding the pilot on was rotted out when they last moved it, so that bump caused it to fall apart completely.

The "Cheap & Nothing Wasted" was good at switching tenders around, especially at the end of steam. They also swapped tenders when the role the locomotive was filling required more or less water or coal. We know that the C&NW 1385 at Mid-Continent had several tenders over its lifetime, and its original tender more than once.