6325 rests on the bridge over the Battle Creek River in the summer of 1952, waiting for the highball to proceed westward. No. However, two of No. 11, 1953.Photo by Peter Cox, Steamtown Foundation Collection. American railroad owned by the government of Canada. 6039 is a preserved class "U-1-c" 4-8-2 "Mountain type" steam locomotive built in June 1925 by Baldwin. 21 bound for Muskegon. 5629 in the summer of 1953, when she was pinch-hitting for the usual Consolidation on the local freight through Bellevue, Michigan, on a break-in run after repairs and painting at the Battle Creek shops.
Proud queens of Grand Trunk Western's steam passenger fleet were the six 4-8-4s in class U-4-b, Nos. In her tow is one of the K-4-b Pacifics (identifiable by the vestibule cab) evidently destined for shopping at Battle Creek. I photographed No. I rode behind one of these locomotives on a family trip from Battle Creek, Michigan, to Chicago in the early 1950s. [4][1], As good as these locomotives were, however, the GTW had acquired larger locomotives to help pull the longer trains, such as the "Confederation" class 4-8-4s. (Train orders were sometimes called "flimsies" because of the thin paper used in making multiple carbon copies.) Grand Trunk Western, Durand, Michigan; 1959 - YouTube 0:00 / 7:48 Grand Trunk Western, Durand, Michigan; 1959 14,647 views Mar 1, 2013 In the Spring and Winter of 1959, my dad took these. The locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company in the 1930s and 1940s had 73-inch (1.854 m) driving wheels with 60,000 pounds of tractive effort and would be used in mainline freight and passenger service. 6039, now at Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Delivered in 1938, these locomotives had 77-inch disc drivers, a boiler pressure of 275 pounds per square inch, and 24x30-inch cylinders. [7][8] As site preparation began, some residents protested suggesting that the site was too small; ultimately, the chosen site was used. Some well known trips done by No. It also appeares on the back cover of the Spring 2022 issue of The Semaphore, magazine of the Grand Trunk Western Historical Society. Grand Trunk Western No. They developed 52,457 pounds of tractive effort and weighed 382,700 pounds. Simmons-Boardman Publishing Co., 1927. The famous K-4-a No. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. These Consolidations were members of class N-4, which had several subclasses; all were built between 1906 and 1911 for the Grand Trunk Railway. Have one to sell? 6039 4-8-2, Builder: Baldwin Locomotive Works, June 1925. $75.00 + $22.45 shipping. These locomotives were part of the Canadian National roster, but were separately identified as Grand Trunk or Grand Trunk Western for service in the United States. reinstalled. 159. [17] The locomotive, the siding it sat on and the fence surrounding it were all sold for $1 to 6325 Turntable, Inc., a nonprofit organization founded to restore it. After our family had moved to Bloomington, Illinois, my brother David took my 35mm camera on a steam-hunting expedition to Michigan and Ontario. She has been displayed at R. A. Greene Park in Jackson, Michigan, as seen in the view on the right adapted from Google Maps, August 2017. Narrow Gauge Railroad The piping and jacketing were removed so that the underlying asbestos could be safely disposed of. ripping the quiet Michigan and Indiana countrysides apart with fast
the United States as a result of the great success of an engine of that
A wheel arrangement so rare that it doesn't even appear in most lists of steam locomotive types was the 0-8-2. 6325 could easily handle sixteen passenger cars or eighty car hotshot freights with equal ease on the Chicago division. subsidiary in Michigan.Canadian National Railways. In addition he would regularly report to the dispatcher the passing of all trains past the Bellevue depot on this busy stretch of railroad. With little volunteers, low money and no place to call home, the Greater Battle Creek foundation was through. Shop online for 11 grand trunk western model train locomotives at discounts up to 25%. automatic or mechanical stokers, and they were the first locomotives on
More information: Railroad succeeded the Grand Trunk Western Railway. RM 2F5J0AR - Grand Trunk Railway 4-4-0 locomotive, no. Date Built: June 1925
Today, the story of GTW No. 6039 at Steamtown, Bellows Falls,
[8] As of 2023, No. Weight on Drivers: 146,550 lbs. Gordon Chappell, A Canadian National Railways folio locomotive diagram sheet
third axles (and possibly the first, which is obscured in the
No. Two 2-day photo charters featuring EBT 2-8-2 #16 with passenger and freight from dropping down and obscuring the vision of the engineer and fireman. Tractive Effort: 42,000 lbs
Work Ex 50196 and 3748 working between Nichols yd & Olivet." scheduled excursions, please see the Tourist Railroads & Museums Pages. Class includes both GT and GTW locomotives. carrier service in the state of Vermont, and the last to survive. Above, sister No. I saw them operating there a few times, and photographed my sons Peter and Paul posing with Northwestern Steel & Wire's No. passenger service, the Grand Trunk Western soon learned how successfully
5043 and 5042 resting near the roundhouse. Grand Trunk Western was one of the last U.S. railroads to employ steam locomotives. Photo by the author, Edward J. Ozog. the railroad later removed. 6325 on static display at the Age of Steam Roundhouse in April 2022. Grand Trunk Western No. 3734 was a member of class S-3-a, built by American Locomotive Company in Schenectady to USRA light Mikado specifications similar to those of Nos. Related photos: 5629 at Dearborn Station in Chicago. It was comprised of the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR), Intercolonial Railway (ICR) and the Canadian Northern (CNoR). Bellevue was still served by a part-time operator, and although passenger trains no longer stopped at our village of 1,000 between Battle Creek and Charlotte, there was some freight business. 5629 to the Rock Island Railroad's Burr Oak Yard in Blue Island, IL. It was built in 1900 by the GTR Point St. Charles Shops for the Grand Trunk Railroad as No. D&RGW 168 leads a special with photo runbys from Antonito, She sports a shiny paint job recently applied at the Battle Creek shops, including white tires and the tilted GTW herald on the tender. My brother, David Leonard, photographed No. [See p. 198, fig. Drawing of
[See Item 45. Baldwin Locomotive Works. The Southern Pacific's Daylights and the Norfolk & Western's Class J series were outstanding examples. vestibuled or all-weather cabs. No. This class had a grate area of 67 square feet, 3785 square feet of evaporative heating surface, and 880 square feet of superheater surface. It was used on the New England Lines between Portland, Me. class designed by the U.S. Railroad Administration in its short-lived
3523 was a member of class S-1-h, built in 1918 by Schenectady. As with many major railroads of North America, the 2-8-2 or Mikado type locomotive had been the Grand Trunk Western's principal main line freight power until the appearance of dual-service 4-8-4s beginning in the late 1920s. Note: The accuracy and accessibility of the resulting translation is not guaranteed. the railroads were briefly nationalized during and just after World War
However, returning No.
Rail History: Grand Trunk Western 4070 - YouTube In another view of No. 6322 was another well known sister engine, that is, for being the very last steam locomotive to be used by the GTW to pull a regularly scheduled passenger train. Maryland Railway Winter Steam Spectacular, October 16-19: East Broad Top Railroad Photo Charters Grand Trunk Western No. No. Vol. Steamtown Foundation, n.d. (ca. February 25: Hocking Valley Steam Train Special. By the first half of the 20th century the railroads largest steam power would be its Northern type 4-8-4 locomotives, called Confederations by CN. in high-speed service. 2683 at Bellevue, from the summer of 1953, reveals the careful maintenance the Grand Trunk Western applied to even its older locomotives. Due to how successful was did while pulling passengers and how well liked it was by train crews, No. Thirty-nine of these relatively small but handsome Class J-3-a Pacificswere delivered to the Grand Trunk Western Railroad over a two-year periodfrom the Baldwin Locomotive Works andthe Montreal Locomotive Works starting in 1912. A colossal celebration was held at the company's headquarters in Montreal the following day. USA. Builder's Number: 58463, Cylinders (diameter x stroke in inches): 26 x 30
3740 was built by Schenectady in 1923, and was listed as being renumbered to 4076 in June 1956. 8318 poses with Electro-Motive type SC switcher No. Grand Trunk Western No. [1] It served the Grand Trunk Western Railroad by pulling fast passenger and freight trains throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, until the railroad decided to dieselize their locomotive fleet. Locomotive No. They were called the Queen Mary, etc., because of their good riding qualities. 5030 and 5632, are both on static display in Michigan. For more GTW and CNR steam images taken by my late brother, visit David Leonard's CNR-GTW Steam Gallery, 1958. C ANADIAN N ATIONAL R AILWAYS. Three factors influenced the Grand Trunk Western
More information: Grand Trunk Western Steam locomotives resisted the onset of dieseldom a bit longer in Canada than on most railroads south of the border, and this was also true for Canadian National Railways' operating unit in the Great Lakes states, the Grand Trunk Western. Recommendation: This engine is exactly the
Hocking Valley Scenic Railway, March 18: Winterail 5629 in excursion service out of Chicago. But it wasn't until 1998 that restoration efforts began and on July 31, 2001, No. The locomotive was subsequently moved out of the back shops to remain on display on various parts of Steamtown property. 6039 was reported to have received vanadium steel main frames and boxpok driving wheels, but not all of them were applied at the same. California Locomotive No. 5631 at Durand in the summer of 1953, handling the same train as No. 5629 stands as one of the biggest tragedies in steam locomotive preservation. Water (in gallons): 13,575. Related photos: 86 was built in 1910 by the Canadian Locomotive Co. as Grand Trunk No. Eventually, Metra had finally had enough and contracted with the Erman-Howell Division of the Luria Brothers Scrap Company to dispose of No 5629. named Eilenberger recorded Engine No. Locomotives: The Mountains. They were manufactured with friction bearings on all
Above, at Bellevue, Michigan in the summer of 1952, we see 2-8-2 No.
Trains & Travel International During that same summer my father was transitioning between serving as Methodist minister in Bellevue, Michigan and teaching at the Detroit Institute of Technology. No. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Durango & Silverton By 1857, the Grand Trunk had a total of 849 miles of track in operation and rostered a fleet of 197 locomotives.
Tractive Effort (in lbs. This photo appears in I. E. Quastler's book Where the Rails Cross: A Railroad History of Durand, Michigan, published in September 2005. A colorful new ride is immediately behind the train in this angle, so I made the photo black and white to make the new ride less noticeable and the photo more authentic to the 1881 . successful, to the extent that Canadian National bought another 21 in
When new, these locomotives had been assigned to passenger service on the Chicago-Port Huron main line, but by the time my family was living in Michigan their main territory was the Detroit-Muskegon line. Grand Trunk Railway 1516 Canadian National Railways 5288 Whyte System Type: 4-6-2 "Pacific" Class: J-7-b Builder: Montreal Locomotive Works Date Built: 1918 Builder's Number: 60483 Cylinders (diameter x stroke in inches): 24 x 28 Boiler Pressure (in lbs. The Grand Trunk Western continued to use steam engines in commuter service and other local and branch line assignments in the Detroit area through the late 1950s, with a few locomotives serving until 1961. More information: The steam locomotives made by the DB in West Germany, under the guidance of Friedrich Witte, represented the latest evolution in steam locomotive construction including fully welded frames, high-performance boilers and roller bearings on all moving parts. 3748 appears briefly in the Herron video/DVD Glory Machines of the Grand Trunk Western. U.S. Sugar 4-6-2 #148 leads excursions from Sebring and Lake Placid, Western No. These class O-19-a switchers were built by ALCo in 1919. [6][1] The locomotive was also repainted with a light grey smokebox and a solid black number plate, and it was put on display at North Walpole in front of Maine Central 2-8-0 No. FEBRUARY 2023. Sister locomotive No. 6039 is the sole survivor of the GTW's 4-8-2 locomotives, and it is one of only seventeen steam locomotives from the GTW that are preserved. [20] In 1992 the small Michigan restoration group was notified by the GTW/Canadian National railroad that 6325 would have to be moved from its current siding. The locomotive was mainly designed to haul freight trains, but also did occasional passenger service whenever possible.
Grand Trunk Western 6325, Part of Truman's Whistle-Stop Campaign Trains,
Bellows Falls, Vt.:
The locomotive at right is U-3-b 4-8-4 No. The CNR system U-1-a through U-1-e classes had the "Indirect" or "reverse" configuration of the Walschaerts valve gear. Larry Bell (mentioned above) wrote me as follows: "In Durand, the 3500s were used on the 'top end jobs' almost exclusively. 713 is a "Mogul" type 2-6-0 steam locomotive.
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Although idle, the 6325 now resides, protected from the elements in the Age of Steam Roundhouse near Sugarcreek, OH. No. 3-day weekend photographing passenger, freight, and ore trains with 2-8-0 #81, 2-8-0 #93, condition, this engine reportedly has bad cylinder castings, which means
side, the opening between the spokes was circular, rather than
No. can be restored to run, it should be so restored for interpretive use
She belonged to class S-3-a and was erected by American Locomotive's Schenectady works in 1918. Grand Trunk Western: 4-6-2 "Pacific"
Durango & Silverton As with many
5048 with the local freight at the depot in nearby Perrinton. Class U-1-c was delivered by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1925. 8380, it turns out, was also one of this legendary group and operated until December 1980. Although engine crews reportedly liked these 4-8-2s,
By that date, the engine had
Grand Trunk Western - Locomotive No. Scrapping began on July 14, 1987 and was completed by July 17th. No. This subclass had Stephenson valve gear until retired. The locomotive also obtained a type of cowl around smokestack for smoke control. No. Railroad Photos, March 23-24: Southern Pacific 18 at Laws Railroad Museum Second, the parent Canadian National Railways had purchased 16 of
Oddly, these modern drive wheels were not all
For surviving steam locomotives, visit the Grand Trunk Western page in Wes Barris' North American Steam Locomotive site. At
6039 is the only 4-8-2 Mountain-type engine in
Grand Trunk Western Railroad 4-8-2 Locomotive No. 76 (8376) today it is at the Amboy Depot Museum in Amboy, Illinois.
Knott's Berry Farm Steam Train, Buena Park, California Florida Durango & Silverton Whyte System Type: 4-8-2 Mountain
No. S-19802 from the railway's Purchasing Department in Montreal, Quebec, on
I snapped several photos of No. However in 2005, the engine was sidelined after it suffered a hot driving axle bearing issue during an excursion run, it was taken out of service indefinitely were it was previously awaiting for a complete rebuild. ], Scribbins, Jim. Detroit on Grand Trunk Western trains were in fact being hauled by an
It seems that the company had acquired a number of locomotives for scrapping, and even replaced older switchers with more recent acquisitions. 6315, stopping briefly with her freight train on the main line at Bellevue, Michigan in the summer of 1953. do not Exceed Fifteen 15 Miles per hour entering and leaving single track V.R.H." Occasionally the 6400s were seen on freight trains, especially on break-in runs after overhauling at the Battle Creek shops. After World War II, the GTW started investing into diesel locomotives, which would take over most of the high-priority assignments. Grand Trunk Western was one of them (others included Illinois Central, Atlantic Coast Line and Canadian Pacific). Locomotive Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Vermont. The engineer, leaning on the window sill, regards the photographer (me) on the M-78 highway bridge with some amusement. 8380 in the yards at Durand, Michigan during the summer of 1953. This group had 26x30-inch cylinders, a driver diameter of 73 inches, and a boiler pressure of 210 pounds per square inch. With a locomotive weight of 403,000 pounds and a combined engine-and-tender length of 96 feet, the U-3-b class was still one of the smaller types of 4-8-4s used on the North American railway system. More information: Like Pacific 5629, this engine received a larger tender and was featured in fan trip service at the head of a number of railfan specials in the 1960s and 1970s. 6037-6041.
CNR Steam Locomotives - Your Railway Pictures Galloping Goose # 5 makes round-trips to Cascade Canyon - Durango, Colorado
Cumbres & Toltec Its role in history is what saved it from the scrapper's torch. elevations and cross sections, locomotive only, no tender; p. 200, fig. be restored cosmetically to serve as a static exhibit engine in the
Grand Trunk Western No. 5030 | Locomotive Wiki | Fandom [5][1], After sitting in storage for a few months, No. 3748, mentioned in the train order, in its work train duty. Its forte was heavy passenger and fast freight service. Riverside, Vermont, just north of Bellows Falls. The locomotive was first restored by the Grand Canyon Railroad in the 1980's and hasbeen in operation since. GTW U-3-b class 4-8-4 Northern-type locomotive 6319 lead the first section of train #21 with 15 passenger cars and GTW 4-8-4 Northern 6322 pulled the second section with 22 passenger cars. Photo Concepts: When the gates close, the engineer gives a steam blast on the whistle, then steam escapes on both sides of the locomotive making a nice action shot. Notice also that the U-1-c class, in common with most of their Canadian National sisters, had the "Indirect" or "reverse" configuration of the Walschaerts valve gear, in which the eccentric crank angles toward the rear when the driving rods are in the bottom quarter.