The UP/C&NW/
Galena & Chicago Union was the first railroad built from Chicago. And their Pioneer was the first locomotive that ran out of Chicago.
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IRM Strahorn Library
posted two images with the comment:
"Pioneer”, 4-2-0 Galena & Chicago Union Railroad (#1 C&NW Ry). Built by Baldwin, builder number 36, 10 tons, acquired October 24, 1848 ex. Michigan Central "Alert", original owner Utica and Schenectady Railroad.
Photo by C&NW Ry Public Relations Department Negative No 49 - 20 A
Shop drawing - "Pioneer" placed in service Oct 24, 1848
Larson Collection, Chicago & North Western Vol. 1, Illinois Railway Museum Strahorn Library
Walt Del Calle: Was also used by the Aurora Branch Railroad and is therefore the first locomotive of today's BNSF Railway.
Chicago History Museum posted two photos with the comment:
In October 1848, a small group of Chicagoans witnessed the “Pioneer” on its inaugural run as it pulled from the city’s first railway station, near the intersection of present-day Canal and Kinzie Streets. The “Pioneer” has long remained, in the words of one commentator, the “historic symbol of the coming of the railroads” to Chicago and the nation, transforming both in challenging and enduring ways. For our latest blog post, CHM director of exhibitions Paul Durica writes about the locomotive’s significance in Chicago’s railroad history and the winding journey it took to our “Chicago: Crossroads of America” exhibition: https://ow.ly/axNR50PVcjh
Daniel Linehan: 1st long run was out to the lead mines in Galena past U.S. Grant's little storefront
Tracy Duran: Very cool! Great article too!
The City of Aurora had rented the Pioneer too when our locomotive that was being bult wasn't completed quick enough.
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Brian Berthold posted
Galena & Chicago Union's Pioneer from old Elgin a pictorial history E.C. Alft
Jerry Hund: Whatever happened to its tender? |
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David Daruszka commented on Jerry's comment
The tender was long gone. The shops built a replica for the Chicago Railroad Fair. That too disappeared but the trucks survived and were at the Monticello Railway Museum. Here is the original configuration. |
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David Daruszka commented on Jerry's comment
Note the replacement tender in this photo. |
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David Daruszka commented on Jerry's comment
With the replica tender. |
(I took the colored pictures in the
Chicago History Museum where it is now preserved.)
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In 1948, the G&CU bought a 12-year old, obsolete, but cheap, locomotive delivered by boat from Michigan City ---
The Pioneer. (
northwest) It was the first locomotive to run in Chicago. (
The Rogers was the first locomotive operated in Illinois.)
Photos from the
Chicago Railroad Fair - 1948.
A sequence of photos showing the C&NW delivering
The Pioneer and an age appropriate coach to the 1948 Fair.
The sequence ends with them taking a public relations photo showing their oldest locomotive with one of their newest. Remember, this photo was taken in 1948 so that E locomotive was probably fresh from the EMD factory.
Note the big timber atop the wheels on the tender with a large lever on top of the timber. I suspect that was a brake. This is decades before air brakes were invented. I've seen "armstrong" interlocking towers and turntables, but this is the first time I have seen an armstrong brake. Also note how the cylinder slants downward. On top of the cylinder, you can see the box for the slide valve.
Some photos showing it in
the "Wheels A-Rolling" show that was put on four times a day.
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David Daruszka posted
John Uhlich Anyone know where the photo of the Pioneer was tacken?
David Daruszka The annex of the Transportation Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. |
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David Daruszka updated
Chicago & North Western's locomotive Pioneer poses with a modern E-unit in 1948 at the 40th Street shops. The photo from the C&NW publicity department documented the locomotive's appearance at the Chicago Railroad Fair. Photo from the collections of the Chicago & North Western Historical Society. |
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Trevor Palczynski posted
Chicago & Northwestern "Pioneer" 4-2-0 locomotive on display at the Chicago History Museum
Is that a replica or the real deal? |
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David Daruszka commented on Trevor's posting
Real deal, minus the tender.
Jason R Maxwell Built in the 1830's by Baldwin with no cab or tender. Cab and tender were added and it was sold to the Chicago and Galena Union railroad in 1848. It was shipped in on the great lakes. The very first locomotive on what eventually became the Chicago and Northwestern. It was also leased to the original Burlington route predecessor and was there very first engine too. Very historically significant. We are lucky it was saved.
Craig Cloud Wood fuel? Did it get changeover burn coal at all? |
The Chicago History Museum has also preserved an "L" car.
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Tabitha Phoebe Mira posted
L Car No 1 built 1892 The Last Survivor among Chicago’s First Fleet of Elevated Rail Cars at the Chicago History Museum photo from Chicago History.
Paul Webb shared |
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Photos from the Chicago Railroad Fair - 1948.
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