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Owner: Chicago Burlington & Quincy
Model:Alco 4-4-0Built As:CBQ 445 (4-4-0)
Serial Number:1657Order No:
Frame Number:Built:12/1883
Notes:A-2, blt by Hinckley 12/83, to CB&Q 440, scrapped 07/53
Other locos with this serial:  CBQ 440(4-4-0)
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CB&Q 4-4-0 Class A-2 440
Title:  CB&Q 4-4-0 Class A-2 440
Description:  Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad 4-4-0 Class A-2 440 at Aurora, Illinois on an unknown day in October 1940 ( 18, 19, or 20 ), photographer unknown. The following is excerpted from Burlington Route Historical Society Bulletin 45, entitled "Modern Americans", edited by Hol Wagner:

Number 440 was built by Hinckley Locomotive Works in December 1883 ( c/n 1657 ) as CB&Q 445, becoming Burlington & Missouri River Railroad number 156 in 1886. In 1904 it was renumbered to CB&Q Class A-2 324. In July 1916 it was rebuilt at Havelock and renumbered 440. In July 1926, it was sold for $3,000.00 to Pete Hedgpeth as Rock Port Langdon & Northern 440 and fitted with a slopeback tender from a Kansas City Terminal switcher. In 1940, the Burlington celebrated their 90th Anniversary. As it happened, Number 35 ( Burlington's exhibition 4-4-0 ) was at the New York World's Fair, which the Q did not wish to disturb. So the 440 was borrowed from the RPL&N, fitted with a diamond stack and long cow catcher at the Saint Joseph, Missouri shops, and a rectangular tender from a retired A-2 ( the original had rusted out ), and sent on tour of Lines East locations as B&MR 156 ( notably, Lincoln and Council Bluffs ), but for the appearance at Aurora it was repainted to CB&Q 440. When it exhibition duties were finished, the 440 was returned to the RPL&N and reunited with the slopeback tender. The 440 made its last trip on the RPL&N on November 11, 1945 after that road suffered two track washouts. The assets of the RPL&N were sold off, and the 440 was scrapped in the summer of 1953.

Photo Date:  10/19/1940  Upload Date: 3/21/2020 2:24:11 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  unknown
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CBQ 440(4-4-0)
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