Steam & Excursion > Next stop Scrappers torch!! Not in this case!

A scene like this in the early 50,s or 60,s would lead to the usual ending for retired steamers, a date with the torch. But this year is 1982 and the last of NSW 0-8-0,s have been shoved onto an old CNW siding near Sterling Ill. I grabbed this shot thinking I would never see then again. However I believe that most if not all of them survived. They are scattered around the country but not sure where, the numbers on the sides were almost non readable. 

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One of them is still in the woods just west of Sterling. IRM got one or two and another is on display in downtown Sterling. Not sure on the others

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Near Hopkins Township, IL
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One is parked on the front lawn of a home in Geneva NE.

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Was lucky enough to make 2 road trips up there, one in 1968 and the other in 1969.  Got 2-3 engines working each time.  Limited access, and some of the security guards looked like pirates!!!
Greg

5 or 6 of the engines from the west end (rear in photo) were traded as scrap by IRM in exchange for CB&Q 4963

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Was the white paint on the edge of all locos walkways really that clean or is this a camera 'thing'?  

Thats the one that belongs to Ken Marks. I think it might be #74. Not sure. Theres an ex CB&Q combine with it.  It's in front of a small factory where they still make miniuture windmill kits. Theres also the legs of a water tower he saved in Iowa and was setting up to live in near by.
I also think zoohogger might have sound recordings of one of these still opperating at the steel plant.
Steve

callum_out Wrote:
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> One is parked on the front lawn of a home in
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He was talking of Westcliff CO interested in it for display. Not a correct display. Just a steam engine. That was last year.

I also remember their request to find a locomotive for display at Westcliff, CO but I never discovered one for sale that would be right to suggest to them.  Their quest has been unfilled for many years.

Must be what I found coming through Nebraska this summer. It took me by suprise, had to turn around and go see if it really was a steam loco, wondered what the story was.

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Could this be the first one in the line? Just noted it has many similar features from this angle.

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MP4093 Wrote:
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> Could this be the first one in the line? Just
> noted it has many similar features from this
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The first one on line is #74 and earlier in the thread that was the one that was speculated ended up in Nebraska

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One of the engines is on display in Independence Iowa.  They have it displayed next to the old IC depot last I knew.