Friday, June 01, 2007

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR steam locomotive # 4978 at original display location. Ottawa Illinois USA. July 1986.

This is a photo I had taken on a trip to Ottawa Illinois back in July of 1986. This is a preserved
2-8-2 Mikado type steam locomotive No#4978 from the C,B & Q railroad, at it's original display location at a city park in Ottawa Illinois. During the 1990's, # 4978 and displayed wooden caboose were moved to Mendota Illinois.
#4978 and caboose are now the centerpiece of the Mendota Railroad Museum out in the western Illinois corn field country.

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