CB&Q #510 shown at Peoria, Illinois in June of 1950:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... b+q510.jpg

This engine was apparently purchased by a private party and was moved to French Lick, Indiana. Apparently never formally on display there, the engine was eventually scrapped about 1967. Any additional information would be welcome.

Another Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 0-6-0 DID survive. Class G-3 engine #1548 was sold by the Q to Midland Electric Coal Company in 1942 and later went to the Galva Iron & Metals Company. Eventually sold to Mack Lowery, a noted model railroad collector, who moved it to Akron, Ohio where it was displayed at a shopping center there. Not sure of its current status or condition.

Les

The BRHS surviving "Q" steam roster indicates that the 1548 is displayed by Quaker Oats in Akron, OH. What a nice addition it would be to the IRM collection. Then a Burlington 4-6-0, 2-8-2, 4-6-4 and 0-6-0 would be in the same place. An O5 would be my only other "wishlist" addition to the collection at Union. It is Christmas time so I can have a wishlist, can't I?

Don C.

The Quaker Square engine just might come available. Quaker Square is being absorbed by the monster blob known as the University of Akron, the entity that is slowly absorbing and sucking the life out of my hometown. (Akron now lacks a decent hotel downtown.) Some or most of the hotel made from the old oat silos will become dorm space. Collection also included a wooden heavyweight PRR business car (I think "Illinois"), some cars from the 1938 Broadway Ltd., and an 0-4-0T Henschel.

The story on the 0-6-0 is that after Mack Lowry bought it, it was laid up with water in the boiler, which froze before it could be moved to Ohio and irreparably cracked the boiler. Still would be a good static display loco as part of a collection showing a sweep of CB&Q steam power.

Paul -

Thanks very much for the information. At one time, there was also a wooden bay window caboose there (reportedly ex-Monon, but never been proved to be). Is that caboose now gone?

Les

The family actually enjoyed a stay at Quaker Square, in a hotel room sawn out of a concrete grain elevator silo. Quietest hotel room you'll ever stay in. The 0-6-0 is in typically-crummy park-engine condition. The 1938 Broadway cars retain much of their Raymond Loewy interior decor, and are indoors. Probably not real healthy overall, though.