Hello everyone. I hope you are all well. Found these two pics while perusing railpictures. Taken nearly two years apart from two different vantage points by two different guys, there are a couple of things I find interesting. The 5629 for one. I'm amazed that the loco is stored outside - in Chicago! She looks pretty good even in the second pic, although it looks like some work was being done, what with the sheet metal off her dome. For all you guys who contributed to the surviving tenders thread awhile back. Behind the 5629 is what looks like a coast to coast (still with doghouse) that appears to be converted to MOW as it's in yellow. You can see it a bit better in the later picture. Is that a bascule bridge off to the right? God bless. Seth

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 872&nseq=0
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 50&nseq=39

note the note in one of the pics.

Eastbound mail train about to pass Dick Jensen's Pacific, former GTW 5629. The locomotive was later scrapped, following a legal dispute regarding storage fees. Note that the 5629 has a full load of coal in the tender.




In some scrounging around in the NKPHS newsletter they found an NKP 2-8-2 in a scrap yard, took photos of it, alas, it was later scrapped.

That picture was just heartbreaking when I 1st saw it a few years ago and read the story behind it. Seems there was some last minute folks desperately trying to save it - move it to another place before the RR's deadline. From what I remember these folks were days away from securing the necessary funds/permissions/etc. to do the move. The deadline hit and somebody came in with some heavy equipment and just smashed the engine :(

Horrible cause the engine could have been saved.

Mike

In re-the NKP 2-8-2 in the scrap yard: was this No. 965 (formerly No. 524), ALCO c/n 57506? J.David

that sounds right, I would have to dig my newsletters but thats from memory

Visible in the upper right quadrant of picture posted by dinwitty, is one of the Lasalle and Bureau County's Baldwin diesel switchers, #8 I believe (Look for the black/white scare striped cab end). This was the first Baldwin I ever came across while railfanning. I last saw #8 partially cut up in a southside scrap yard, just before this northwest side guy stopped railfanning the southside...... so much destruction, so many empty, abandoned yards, so much history left to rot.

Jeff

Yes, it is a bascule bridge, to be precise, it's a "Strauss Trunnion bascule", and was at one time, the worlds largest bridge of this type.



Jeff