Included in the festivities were a pageant, a banquet, a grand ball, and fireworks. 3523 is its Young valve gear, in which the valve mechanism drives directly off the cylinder crosshead. 5629 to the Rock Island Railroad's Burr Oak Yard in Blue Island, IL. D&RGW 315 leads a special with photo runbys from Antonito, Rich Brzycki sent me a photo he rediscovered of No. 6328 met the torch in Chicago in 1960. Burr Oak Yard was sold to Metra Commuter Rail of Chicago, who asked Jensen to relocate No. The engineer, leaning on the window sill, regards the photographer (me) on the M-78 highway bridge with some amusement. 6039 from the Canadian National Railway Company for his Picture Information. 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. 6408 at Durand, Michigan, in the summer of 1953, as it stopped at the depot with the Maple Leaf. the United States, six of which were engines of the St. Louis and San 6039. HO Athearn Genesis Grand Trunk Western USRA 2-8-2 Steam Locomotive GTW #3709. 6039 is one of about 17 Grand Trunk 6325 ("Old 6325"[1][2]) is a class "U-3-b" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive built in 1942 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad. attempt to standardize designs of all American steam locomotives when During that same summer my father was transitioning between serving as Methodist minister in Bellevue, Michigan and teaching at the Detroit Institute of Technology. Two 2-day photo charters featuring EBT 2-8-2 #16 with passenger and freight (Photo: DogsRNice via CC by 4.0) Early Years for the Grand Trunk Western 6325. Class K-4-b had been preceded in 1924 by the five locomotives in class K-4-a from American Locomotive Company, which lacked the vestibule cab. 5629's endangerment spread through the local railroad community. See details. Grand Trunk Western Railroad 4-8-2 Locomotive No. Canadian National Railway Company. She heads train No. 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. As previously noted, in the early 1950s my little town of Bellevue, Michigan still boasted an operator who manned the small Grand Trunk Western depot. It pulled its first excursion train from Dennison to Columbus, Ohio on September 22 of that year. [9][10] The locomotive was moved to its preservation site on July 9, 1960,[11][12] and a dedication ceremony was held on July 17. 6323 and 6313 above and 6328 below. Retired in 1959, No. 3732 at the engine terminal in Battle Creek in August, 1956. The low photo angle was mandated by the location, as the roadbed was on a fill and there was no way to photograph the locomotive from track level. Michigan and controlled by the Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada, by 1920 This engine may be seen at the head of a fast freight in Chicago's south side on John Szwajkart's video The Chicago Collection. 6039 is a preserved class "U-1-c" 4-8-2 "Mountain type" steam locomotive built in June 1925 by Baldwin. 6325 hasn't been fired up due to Ohio Central's cease in steam train operations. At the end of its career in the 1950s, the Grand As a result, local freight and branch line duties were still performed by the GTW's ageing stable of lighter steam power. No. Below is a July, 1954 view of No. With 63-inch drivers, they had 23x32-inch cylinders and carried a boiler pressure of 180 pounds per square inch. the Grand Trunk Western to feature both Vanderbilt tenders and enclosed, 5629 View source A postcard from the late 1960s showing No. President Truman was invited to attend the dedication ceremony but sent a letter expressing regrets that he could not attend. In the scene below, taken at Battle Creek in the summer of 1953, P-5-b No. A member of class S-3-c outshopped by American Locomotive in 1924, she was assigned No. Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. 5629 to operating condition for use on fan trips around the area. More information: Walkersville Southern Railroad, August 26: Durango & Silverton Galloping Goose Excursions 5633, displays the web-spoke drivers that seem to have been applied only to this member of the trio. 6039. RM 2HGDC60 - El Gobernador was a 4-10-0 steam locomotive built by Central Pacific Railroad at the railroad's Sacramento, California. Its forte was heavy passenger and fast freight service. 163, builder's photographs of No. Mikado No. [1] The Canadian National Railway (CN) purchased sixteen locomotives with this wheel arrangement in 1923, and they proved to be so successful, that the railroad purchased twenty-one additional units the following year. In the scene below at the Battle Creek shops from the summer of 1953, 0-6-0 No. Several groups, including the Illinois Railway Museum and the Mid-Continent Railway Museum, stepped in to try and save it, but soon realized it would be too costly since it could no longer move on its own wheels. They were converted to a "simple" locomotive (both cylinders use fresh steam) around 1926. Grand Trunk Western No. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Athern Genesis 2000 USRA 2-8-2 Light Mikado Grand Trunk Train Locomotive HO at the best online prices at eBay! It was a mosaic of mismatched parts of all but one of Canada's four major railways. Type Class Road Numbers Cylinders Driver Diameter : Boiler Pressure Locomotive Weight Tractive Effort Builder and Year: Remarks 0-6-0 O-18-b: 7474-7498 22x26 51 175 174,000 37,000 Lima, 1920 Shown on 1937 roster. 5629 was a K-4-a class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in February 1924 for the Grand Trunk Western Railway. Submit Your Event. Class: SC-4 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. With the sale of the Ohio Central to the Genessee & Wyoming, Mr. Jacobson's entire steam collection was transferred to the Age of Steam Roundhouse near Sugarcreek, Ohio. The boxpok drivers proved an important modification They were nice riding compared to the 0-8-0's because of the trailer wheel. modifications of these locomotives. Railway to acquire heavy passenger (and freight) locomotives of the per square inch): 200 Diameter of Drive Wheels (in inches): 69 No. I have a train order copied by station operator Hart at Bellevue, dated June 26, 1953, that reads: "Eastward track single track between Nichols yd [at Battle Creek] & Bellevue until 5:00 pm. 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. The famous K-4-a No. [4], Because of its historical significance, when No. In 1999, 46 years after I photographed her at Durand, I posed in front of No. California 159. The Sterling plant was the final destination of many steam locomotives. carrier service in the state of Vermont, and the last to survive. Railroad photography exposition and railroadiana show - Corvallis, Oregon 3523 was a member of class S-1-h, built in 1918 by Schenectady. In addition, we are making available a copy of the GTW Passenger Timetable, September 30, 1951 in PDF format. tender. automatic or mechanical stokers, and they were the first locomotives on The Grand Trunk Railroad, Railway took delivery from the Baldwin Locomotive Works on five 4-8-2 Grand Trunk Western - Locomotive No. 6325 rests on the bridge over the Battle Creek River in the summer of 1952, waiting for the highball to proceed westward. 5629's sister locomotives, Nos. Related photos: Because the Canadian National system used a percentage rating instead of a tractive effort figure, the tractive effort given for most classes is approximate. extent that the company's 4-6-2 Pacifics increasingly had to be double- per square inch): 210 All U-3-b class locomotives were known as good steamers and were liked by all engine crews and No. they could be found, in the words of the railroad's historian, "as often Their 26x30-inch cylinders, supplied by 200 pounds per square inch of boiler pressure, produced a tractive effort of 54,724 pounds. Grand Trunk Western No. Later fully or partially equipped with disc drivers. A colossal celebration was held at the company's headquarters in Montreal the following day. 5629 at Dearborn Station in Chicago. Technically called "box-spoke," these drivers had fewer spokes 6039, now at Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Rebuilt from 2-8-2s. These class O-19-a switchers were built by ALCo in 1919. It also appeares on the back cover of the Spring 2022 issue of The Semaphore, magazine of the Grand Trunk Western Historical Society. It was originally meant to be preserved for excursion service, but was tragically scrapped in July 1987 after a legal battle between Metra Commuter Rail and the locomotive's owner at the time, Richard Jensen. 6323, which is famous for being the last GTW steam engine to run on GTW rails, under GTW ownership. 6039 at Steamtown, Bellows Falls, 58463, Cylinders: 26 x 30, Drive Wheels: 73, Weight on Drivers: 231,370, Boiler Pressure: 210, Tractive Effort: 49,590. The GTW gradually equipped these locomotives with disc drivers. Out of service since 1990, she is undergoing restoration in Cleveland. Above, at Bellevue, Michigan in the summer of 1952, we see 2-8-2 No. Their streamlining did not extend to the tender which, typical of newer Canadian National Railways power, was in the Vanderbilt style with a cylindrical water tank. 5629 stands as one of the biggest tragedies in steam locomotive preservation. However, two of No. . Grand Trunk Western Railroad 4-8-2 Locomotive No. At the end of steam operations, the GTW sent many of its retired locomotives to Northwestern Steel & Wire in Sterling, Illinois, for scrapping. 6039 4-8-2, Builder: Baldwin Locomotive Works, June 1925. [13][14][note 1]. 7730, the 1929 Brill boxcab unit that switched the ferry docks in Milwaukee). As a result of this, No. This broadside view of another example of the K-4-b class, No. ], Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice, 8th ed. mechanical condition should be thoroughly assessed and a decision made 0-6-0 steam locomotive #3 leads two trips from Nelsonville, Ohio. Although the 4-8-4 was a popular dual-service locomotive, only a few railroads applied streamlining or semi-streamlining to this wheel arrangement. condition, this engine reportedly has bad cylinder castings, which means Newton: Carstens Publications, 1982: 85. My train-watching that day netted me a bonus: a ride in the cab at the invitation of an engineman, and the photo at left, which is the oldest photo taken by me in this Archive. Hollidaysburg to Martinsburg, PA The K-4 Pacifics were a variation of the USRA light Pacific design; they had 67 square feet of grate area, an evaporative heating surface of 3340 square feet, and 795 square feet of superheating surface. 1930). ], Guide to the Steamtown Collection. Western equipped them all with more modern and efficient roller bearings Circa 1937-1942, compiled from various sources. ripping the quiet Michigan and Indiana countrysides apart with fast There, Jensen and a group of local railfans worked to restore No. No. 6037-6041. On August 10, 2021, it was test-fired for the . Tractive Effort: 42,000 lbs Subsequently the engine was exhibited at Blount's Steamtown located at Last updated February 22, 2023. During that time, it was leased to the Central Vermont Railway for freight service, only to become one of the very last steam locomotives to regularly operate in the state of Vermont. 6038 and specifications. 6327 was among the last of GTW's steam engines still operating when the railroad dieselized in 1960 and it was scrapped that year. Grand Trunk Western No. [21] The year 2003 was a spectacular year for 6325, it pulled a few excursions but that wasn't the main event of that year, it was a huge photo festival which included 20 side by side photo runs with No. 6313 and 6333. 8346 of class P-5-e was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1927 and weighed 211,200 pounds. Sister locomotive No. 1006, and renumbered twice, before it was photographed leading a mixed train through Ontario in . Although idle, the 6325 now resides, protected from the elements in the Age of Steam Roundhouse near Sugarcreek, OH. 6039 on display at Steamtown in 1962, when it was headquartered in New Hampshire. Western Railroad engines that have survived in the United States, of No. First, the type became popular in The video was recorded at the Ohio Central's Morgan Run Shops near West Lafayette, OH. Durango & Silverton History: Incorporated in 1900 in Indiana and The following year, it was moved again to North Walpole, New Hampshire, due to the increase in size of the collection of locomotives and rolling stock. and it proved to be one of the last steam locomotives in normal common Railroad succeeded the Grand Trunk Western Railway. Oddly, these modern drive wheels were not all ageofsteamroundhouse.org/events/", "RailPictures.Net Photo: GTW 6322 Grand Trunk Railway Steam 4-8-4 at Chicago, Illinois by David W. DeVault", Steamlocomotive.com webpage on the GTW 4-8-4's, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grand_Trunk_Western_6325&oldid=1138723189, This page was last edited on 11 February 2023, at 06:56. Athearn Genesis G9013 USRA 2-8-2 . light Mikado design; class includes 15 GT and 25 GTW locomotives. 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. An unusual feature of No. this type of locomotive in 1923 that had also proved to be very But on this summer day in 1951 it was Pacific 5030, on a break-in run after repairs at the Battle Creek shops, which did the honors. Narrow Gauge Railroad Note: The accuracy and accessibility of the resulting translation is not guaranteed. Trains, Nos. 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. Despite a network of less than 300 miles its hotly contested Detroit - Chicago market was a vital artery for CN in reaching America's railroad capital. Free shipping for many products! Boiler Pressure: 190 psi 50196, and the Bellevue operator, V. R. Hart. 8380, above. This photo is also in Quastler's Where the Rails Cross. 4-8-2 Mountain type during the 1920s. 6313 was scrapped in 1960. Grand Trunk Western No. 5629 made its debut pulling a trip over the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad, for which it was painted in B&O colors. 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. 18 is a class SC-4 2-8-0 "consolidation" steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1910 for the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad (LS&I) as #11. S-19802, Montreal, Quebec, June 17, 1959.". 6039 was sold for $7,425 on June 17, 1959, to seafood magnate and steam locomotive enthusiast F. Nelson Blount. With a full load of coal in her Vanderbilt tender, Grand Trunk of modifications. The U-4-b class had a grate area of 73.7 square feet; they had 3860 square feet of evaporative heating surface, and their superheating surface totaled 1530 square feet. 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 . Date Built: June 1925 With 3,600 passengers holding tickets train #21 had to be run in two sections (as two separate trains) to accommodate the excess of passengers. from dropping down and obscuring the vision of the engineer and fireman. Both of these engines were scrapped in 1960. 6039 pulled its last train in early 1959, right before its fire was dropped for the last time. Actually, these engines had been converted from 2-8-2s by amputating the pilot truck. all of them in the late 1940s. 2670, 2674, 2675 built 1907; 2684 built 1911. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1884. Then at 5 pm, it pulled a special 3-hour excursion to the OHCR Morgan Run steam shops for tours. the Grand Trunk Western Railway owned 331 miles of track in Michigan and 5629 we find her at the Durand diamonds during the summer of 1954, waiting to proceed south into the depot with No. Last edited on 11 February 2023, at 06:56, "Business Firms To Be Solicited for 'Old 6325' Aid", "Into the Roundhouse: '6325' Finds Winter Home", "Old 6325 Making Last Run July 9 To Its New Home", "Rail 'Veep' Here Sunday: Gaffney To Present 'Old 6325' to City", "HST Likes Steamers But He Can't Attend 'Old 6325' Dedication", "Engine '6325': A mighty relic suffers neglect", "Putting History Back On Track: Fixing Old 6325 is labor of love", "Fall rail excursions include New River Gorge, Amish Country", "The locomotive is in great shape and wouldn't take too much as normally would to restore but for the time being the locomotive is on static display inside our roundhouse. (1967): 36. His letter was read publicly at the ceremony. Virginia the practice on the Canadian National in an attempt to keep the smoke It was comprised of the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR), Intercolonial Railway (ICR) and the Canadian Northern (CNoR). This is one of Thirty-nine of these relatively small but . International.". Scrapping began on July 14, 1987 and was completed by July 17th. they could move hotshot fast freight trains, so that by the early 1930s 2124. Steam and First Generation Diesel Motive Power on the Grand Trunk Members of the U-3-b class had only two more years to run in this Detroit suburban service, their final assignment. Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust, Station & Parking Lot: 64 S. Washington Street Business Office: 100 S. Chestnut Street. Tractive Effort: 34,669 lbs In other respects these engines had specifications similar to No. As a result of this, nine employees were fired from Metra and Jensen filed a lawsuit, but ultimately lost. Thus commuters riding to their jobs in 6325 pulled President Harry S. Truman's campaign train across Michigan on Grand Trunk rails. Sugar Express, February 25: Hocking Valley Steam Train Special Its role in history is what saved it from the scrapper's torch. For more GTW and CNR steam images taken by my late brother, visit David Leonard's CNR-GTW Steam Gallery, 1958. ): 65,000 (also reported as 49,590), Tender Capacity: 3748, mentioned in the train order, in its work train duty. These engines weighed 224,100 pounds and exerted a modest (by later standards) 33,756 pounds of tractive effort. It was used on the New England Lines between Portland, Me. 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. [7][1] There, it was repainted again with the smokebox becoming black again. As of 2022, No. Grand Trunk 3415 in 1954 in Quebec Province. 5629 was a K-4-a class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in February 1924 for the Grand Trunk Western Railway. For tourist railroads offering regularly U-1-c. exhibit at the Pleasure Island amusement park. Tom Golden photo. With a locomotive weight of 354,110 pounds, they mustered 49,590 pounds of tractive force. I photographed No. Coal (in tons): 18 Grand Trunk Western: 4-6-2 "Pacific" 0-6-0 steam locomotive #3 leads two trips from Nelsonville, Ohio This photo appears in I. E. Quastler's book Where the Rails Cross: A Railroad History of Durand, Michigan, published in September 2005. Ashland Train Day, May 20-21 & 27-29: Walkersville Southern Railroad Steam Trains Fast shipping and well packaged, Thanks. Class includes both GT and GTW locomotives. After the new shiny black sheet of boiler jacketing was replaced, Steamtown's boilermaker, Mark St Aubin, took two and a half days to reassemble the piping. [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. Galloping Goose #5 round-trip to Cascade Canyon - Durango, Colorado Winterail, March 18-19: Durango & Silverton Galloping Goose Excursions This was long before the days of computerized and radio-controlled train dispatching from half a continent away, and the ancient telegraph still ticked busily in the operator's office. No. Trains & Travel International The Herron video/DVD Glory Machines of the Grand Trunk Western features a helicopter chase of the modified No. After our family had moved to Bloomington, Illinois, my brother David took my 35mm camera on a steam-hunting expedition to Michigan and Ontario. The locomotive was designed to haul iron ore from the docks of Marquette, Michigan, on Lake Superior, from where the ore would be shipped to steel mills on the lower lakes. 5043 and 5042 resting near the roundhouse. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Durango & Silverton Read more about this topic: Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Locomotives, If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature the bookletsthe little thrilling romances, where the Murder comes at page fifteen, and the Wedding at page fortysurely they are due to Steam?And when we travel by electricityif I may venture to develop your theorywe shall have leaflets instead of booklets, and the Murder and the Wedding will come on the same page.Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898), Wisely watch for the sightOf the supernova burgeoning over the barn,Lampshine blurred in the steam of beasts, the spirits rightOasis, light incarnate.Richard Wilbur (b. 6039 was moved along with the rest of the Steamtown collection to Scranton, Pennsylvania, but the locomotive's cylinder castings became damaged during the move. designs around the stacks of these engines, following the popularity of subsidiary in Michigan.Canadian National Railways. Unable to run the locomotive, it was placed in storage at the Amtrak yard near Union Station in Chicago while Jensen was hospitalized. of course, subsequently was absorbed into the government-owned Canadian In the summer of 1953 we visited the Grand Trunk Western engine terminal in Pontiac, Michigan. 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. At More information: Grand Trunk Western 4070 was an icon steam locomotive in passenger excursion service between 1968 and 1990. This subclass had Stephenson valve gear until retired. No. History: Incorporated in 1900 in Indiana and Michigan and controlled by the Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada, by 1920 the Grand Trunk Western Railway owned 331 miles of track in Michigan and Illinois and was in its later years the only railroad that provided commuter rail service in and . 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 stepped Jerry J. Jacobson of the Ohio Central Railroad System (OHCR) who purchased No. wedge-shaped. locomotives, numbered 6037 through 6041, which it assigned to Class 2023 Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust. "Grand Trunk Western Keeps its Word." elevations and cross sections, locomotive only, no tender; p. 200, fig. [1], During the 1920s, the 4-8-2 "Mountain" type became increasingly famous with various class 1 railroads in North America for proving their worth in pulling fast passenger trains and heavy freight trains. 6039 is one of only seven It was a mosaic of mismatched parts of all but one of Canada's four major railways. the railroad later removed. SHREVEPORT HOUSTON & GULF RAILROAD 4-6-0 #5 ORIGINAL CAMDEN TEXAS LOGGING PHOTO (#404179167035). Making a stop at Durand, Michigan, with train No. 6039 gets meticulously taken care of while occasionally being moved around for public display with occasional night photo sessions taking place around it. Work Ex 50196 and 3748 working between Nichols yd & Olivet." She belonged to class S-3-a and was erected by American Locomotive's Schenectady works in 1918. Recommendation: This engine is exactly the (It was used in Quastler's Where the Rails Cross, mentioned above.) Grand Trunk Western Locomotive No. Dorm, Patrick C. The Grand Trunk Western Railroad: A Canadian 6039 found itself on display on Vermont soil again. In its later years of service on the GTW, the locomotive pulled numerous excursion trips hosted by local railroad clubs and the GTW. The engine was donated to the City of Jackson, MI in 1957, when it was retired from service and it is now currently on display in North Lawn Park just off Lansing Ave. 6039 at Elsdon terminal in March 1939 with boxpok wheels only on the second driving axle, while on September 21, 1941, it was reportedly caught having the boxpok wheels on the first, second, and third axles, but not on the fourth axle. Date Built: 1912 A postcard from the late 1960s showing No. the very least, it should be restored for use as a static exhibit; The judge ruled in favor of Metra and stated that if Jensen could not move it, Metra would be allowed to scrap it. The locomotive at right is U-3-b 4-8-4 No. 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. No. 5030 had been involved in a notorious train wreck, that of the "Knights Templar Special" on June 5, 1923. Seller information. 5629 was subsequently moved to a spur track in Hammond, IN that Jensen had rented from the Grand Trunk. Knowing that the locomotive was indeed going to be scrapped, Jensen and his friends took parts off of it and gave them to local railfans. In the summer of 1953, as mentioned above, a crane was working on the westbound track near Bellevue, and trains were being diverted to the eastbound main between Bellevue and Nichols Yard in Battle Creek. 25. The Grand Trunk Western (GTW) was one of three notable U.S. properties owned by Canadian National (others being Central Vermont and Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific). The run drew thousands of rail enthusiasts. Grand Trunk Western No. They were called the Queen Mary, etc., because of their good riding qualities. Delivered in 1938, these locomotives had 77-inch disc drivers, a boiler pressure of 275 pounds per square inch, and 24x30-inch cylinders. 5634 above. reinstalled. 21 bound for Muskegon. 5629 at Dearborn Station in Chicago. 6325 could easily handle sixteen passenger cars or eighty car hotshot freights with equal ease on the Chicago division. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Locomotives built for the Grand Trunk at the Point St.Charles shops will be identified in the "Builder" with the mark "GTR". Here is a copy of a train order issued by the Battle Creek dispatcher on June 26, 1953, to the engineer of the work crane, No. Returning to service, she became the last remaining 0-8-2 on the GTW roster when renumbered to 3522 in 1956. ", "Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, Pennsylvania", "Grand Trunk Western #6039 Historical Marker", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grand_Trunk_Western_6039&oldid=1139322142, On static display while being occasionally moved around, This page was last edited on 14 February 2023, at 14:40. the engine, which at the time was stored in St. Albans, Vermont. 6313 in the next photo. Normally the local freight through Bellevue, Michigan, was headed by a Consolidation.

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