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CIL 2-10-2 #604 - Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville (Monon)
Title:  CIL 2-10-2 #604 - Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville (Monon)
Description:  An original photo of the 1914 Alco built 2-10-2 Santa Fe type steam locomotive loaded with coal at an unidentified location, porbably Lafayette yard area. As the Monon's fortunes declined in the late 1930s, four of the eight 2-10-2's were sold to the Tennessee RR in 1944-45 and the others were scrapped between 1941-47.CIL #604 was one sold for scrap in October of 1946. Specs - class L-1, 57" drivers, 190 psi boiler pressure, 28x30" cylinders, engine weight of 341,000 lb, tractive effort of 66,640 lb. Unknown photographe and no date or location given for the photo.
Photo Date:  6/1/1940  Upload Date: 2/1/2018 8:05:35 AM
Location:  Lafayette, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CIL 604(2-10-2)
Views:  963   Comments: 1
CIL 2-10-2 #606 - Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville (Monon)
Title:  CIL 2-10-2 #606 - Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville (Monon)
Description:  One of only 8 Santa Fe type locomtives built by Alco for the Monon, this one built by Alco-Brooks in 1916. Specifics - L-1 class, 57" diameter drivers, 28" x 30" cylinders, a 190 psi boiler pressure, they exerted 66,640 pounds of tractive effort and each weighed 341,000 pounds. Www.SteamLocomotives.com & the Monon Technical & Historical Society lists this loco as being scrapped in 1947 but photographer T.W. Cassidy listed this photo as taken in 1948. I will be listing it with an approximate date in 1947.
Photo Date:  6/1/1947  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 6:41:05 AM
Location:  Lafayette, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CIL 606(2-10-2)
Views:  740   Comments: 4


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