Английская Википедия:Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 4963

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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 4963 is a preserved class "O-1a" 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1923 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. It was used by the CB&Q to haul mainline freight trains before it was leased to the Bevier and Southern Railroad to haul short-distance freight trains in the early 1960s. It was subsequently retained by the CB&Q and used as a source of spare parts before being acquired by Richard Jensen.

It was planned for No. 4963 to be restored to run again before it was sold to a scrapyard during legal disputes between Jensen and the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad. No. 4963 was later purchased by the Illinois Railway Museum in 1990, and as of 2024, the locomotive is on static display in Union, Illinois.

History

Design and revenue service

Throughout the 1910s, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy (CB&Q) Railroad ordered a fleet of 2-8-2 "Mikado" locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Eddystone, Pennsylvania, for use in general freight service. The first sixty 2-8-2's of the CB&Q (Nos. 5000-5059) were classified as the O-1 Class. They were built with Шаблон:Convert diameter driving wheels, Шаблон:Convert cylinders, and a boiler pressure of Шаблон:Convert, and they were able to generate Шаблон:Convert of tractive effort.

In 1917, the CB&Q upgraded the boiler design on the O-1, resulting in a new class of locomotives being created; the O-1A. The O-1A's were designed with radially stayed fireboxes and feedwater heaters, and their boiler pressure was upgraded to Шаблон:Convert, resulting in their ability to produce Шаблон:Convert of tractive effort. The first eighty-eight O-1A's (Nos. 5060-5147) were built between 1917 and 1922, and sixty locomotives (Nos. 4940-4999) were built in 1923.

No. 4963 was among the last locomotives constructed for the railroad in August 1923. No. 4963 was primarily used for hauling mixed freight trains for over twenty-five years. As the CB&Q acquired diesel locomotives to modernize the railroad's fleet, most of the O-1A's on the CB&Q, including No. 4963, were reassigned to switch and pull hopper cars of coal within the Beardstown Division in Southern Illinois.

The Beardstown Division was the final division on the CB&Q to be fully dieselized. In January 1959, No. 4963 was removed from service in the Beardstown Division, and it was put into storage in Galesburg, Illinois. In December 1960, No. 4963 received a major overhaul inside the CB&Q's roundhouse in Galesburg, and it was subsequently loaned to the Bevier and Southern Railroad (B&S) to operate alongside fellow O-1A No. 4943. The B&S assigned No. 4963 to pull coal trains between coal mines in Brinkley, Missouri and the B&S-CB&Q interchange in Bevier.

Preservation

In the fall of 1962, No. 4963 was removed from service on the B&S, when the CB&Q loaned an EMD NW2 to the railroad, and the O-1A was returned to Galesburg, two years later. At the time, the CB&Q was hosting a steam excursion program, and No. 4963 began serving as a spare parts provider for another fellow O-1A class locomotive, No. 4960. In 1966, the CB&Q’s steam program was discontinued, and all of their remaining steam locomotives were sold off.

No. 4963 remained in storage until September 1966, when it was purchased by Richard “Dick” Jensen, who moved it to the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad’s (C&WI) 47th Street Roundhouse near Dearborn Station in Chicago. Jensen made plans to restore No. 4963 to operating condition for use to haul his own excursion trains alongside other steam locomotives he owned. He relied on a portion of ticket sales from excursion trains hauled by Grand Trunk Western 5629 to fund the restoration.

In 1968, ownership of the C&WI changed, and the new owners began to consider demolishing the 47th Street Roundhouse. On February 27, 1969, the C&WI sent Jensen a notice that he had thirty days to vacate his equipment from the property, but subsequent negotiations extended the deadline by three months. While several small things were being removed from the roundhouse, Jensen and his crew desperately searched for a location to store No. 4963, as well as CB&Q 4-8-4 No. 5632 and several boxcars full of tools and spare parts, and considerations came and went to move them to the Illinois Railway Museum.

In August 1969, the C&WI had No. 4963 moved with No. 5632, and the parts-filled boxcars to the nearby 88th street yard. In an effort to find out what the railroad’s intentions were, Jensen had asked both the Chicago and North Western (C&NW) and the Chicago West Pullman and Southern (CWP&S) Railroads if an inspection was being performed on his locomotives and rolling stock to move them, but he was subsequently informed that the C&WI denied his request to inspect his equipment. The following month, on September 25, the C&WI illegally sold No. 4963, No. 5632, and the boxcars to the Erman-Howell division of the Luria Brothers Scrap Company for $5,800, and they were subsequently moved to Erman-Howell’s 83rd street scrapyard. Jensen then tried to repurchase his two CB&Q locomotives from the scrapyard, but his offer was declined.

While No. 5632 was scrapped after derailing on a switch, No. 4963 spent the next twenty-two years being stored inside Erman-Howell’s scrapyard. In the fall of 1990, the O-1A became scheduled to be dismantled for scrap. A proposition was made to the city of Chicago to acquire No. 4963 and restore it for use in pulling their own excursion trains around the area, but the proposition was declined, and the threat of scrapping returned. The Illinois Railway Museum subsequently reached an agreement with Erman-Howell to trade five Ex-Northwestern Steel and Wire 0-8-0 switchers (Nos. 8306, 8328, 8372, 8375, and 8379) in exchange for No. 4963. The locomotive was subsequently moved to the Museum’s property in Union, Illinois, where it was cosmetically repainted and put on static display with the rest of the Museum’s collection. As of 2024, No. 4963 is displayed inside one of the Museum’s barns.

See also

• Nickel Plate Road 587
• Grand Trunk Western 4070
• Baltimore and Ohio 4500
• St. Louis-San Francisco 1630
• St. Louis–San Francisco 1352

Bibliography

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