Inside the cab of C,B & Q Locomotive # 3006.

This is "Me", Your host and photographer Edward Kwiatkowski (Eddie.) in the year 1998 BC. ( Before "Contacts")
We are in the cab of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad preserved steam locomotive number # 3006 in the city of Galesburg Illinois USA. This locomotive has a 4 -6 -4 wheel arrangement. that being 4 lead truck wheels -6 driving wheels -and 4 trailing truck wheels to support and balance the weight of the enormous firebox. This type of locomotive was called a "Hudson Type". The New York Central railroad had America's first 4 -6-4 types and named them after the "Hudson River". These locomotives were used almost exclusively on fast express passenger trains. Near the end of the steam era, some railroads pressed theirs into limited freight train service, as many passenger trains were rapidly becoming "Dieselized". The C,B&Q used engines like this and others on railfan passenger excursions from 1955 to 1966. Locomotive # 3006 was donated to the city of Galesburg Illinois in the year of 1961. Locomotive # 3007 is in the Illinois Railway Museum in Union Illinois USA.