Sad view of GTW 4-6-2 5629, probably taken not too long before it was scrapped. One of the greater losses we have experienced in recent times.

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?september02/09-19-02/98_240.jpg
ryarger@rypn.org

Perhaps the worst part was the total intractability of all parties concerned in saving the locomotive. To destroy her, merely to injure a single party was cavaliere misuse of the law and certainly not in the positive interest of anyone. The locomotive gave great service in her extended life, and should have been preserved if only as a static exhibit.
It's difficult to discuss 5629 without remembering her cousin, 5632, which was similarly destroyed in a spiteful manner. I have never seen a picture of CB&Q 5632 being scrapped. Do any exist?



glueck@maine.edu

> Perhaps the worst part was the total
> intractability of all parties concerned in
> saving the locomotive. To destroy her,
> merely to injure a single party was
> cavaliere misuse of the law and certainly
> not in the positive interest of anyone. The
> locomotive gave great service in her
> extended life, and should have been
> preserved if only as a static exhibit.
> It's difficult to discuss 5629 without
> remembering her cousin, 5632, which was
> similarly destroyed in a spiteful manner. I
> have never seen a picture of CB&Q 5632
> being scrapped. Do any exist?

I remember seeing a picture of 5629 being scrapped. I think it was in Railfan. The boiler was cut open and they were using it to illustrate the interior of a locomotive boiler. Check issues from just after the engine was scrapped. If I still have the issue I will post the date of publication.

jhbohon@yahoo.com

November 1987 issue of Railfan & Railroad. Page 73. Great picture of the internals.

Jeff Lisowski
West Chester, Pa

unfunkyufo76@hotmail.com

There is a picture of GTW #5629 being cut up on the Fallen Flags website as well. I am looking for a picture of the big CB&Q 4-8-4, #5632, being cut up. Both locos were owned by the same man, and though the numbers are close they are entirely different loco classes and railroads. Another CB&Q 4-8-4, also numbered 5629, was preserved and displayed in Colorado, but again, not the pretty little Pacific that was butchered. Anyone from the Burlington crowd have one of the 5632?

glueck@maine.edu

> There is a picture of GTW #5629 being cut up
> on the Fallen Flags website as well.

Any idea where? Did not see it under GTW.

David Farlow

hudson.industries@att.net

> Any idea where? Did not see it under GTW.

> David Farlow

When I was a youngster back in the mid-late 1950's, I traveled with my father to Grand Trunk county, as he business near Durand. One time we were there at the Depot and I shot a picture with two trains facing each other on the diamond. Across from me was a 4-8-2 I think, and next to me was a 4-6-2, number 5629(cab numbers are the left part of the picture). I have this in my childhood train photo album. I was around 7-8 maybe at the time.
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