CIL 2-10-2 #606 - Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville (Monon)

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Butch Getz	General	Another nice one.	11/27/2015 7:01:45 AM

Alan Fricker	General	Nice photo-drag engine for coal trains or for pusher service, but I don't know if the Monon had a hill requiring pushers.	11/27/2015 9:34:47 AM

Jim Ford	General	Seems like a small tender for an engine in road service.	11/27/2015 11:05:00 AM

Eric Reinert	General	The Monon used them for just about whatever they needed with the exception of the Indianapolis branch due to axle weight. i.e.:Transfers out of South Hammond to Chicago and back, coal trains on the Midland branch, freights on the North end (Hammond to Lafayette), etc. No need for a larger tank, the Monon wasn't a huge road with hundreds of miles between terminals. All survivors into the 1940's had been modified with a bunker extension like is seen here.	11/27/2015 7:47:44 PM

CIL 2-10-2 #606 - Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville (Monon)
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.
Date: 6/1/1947	Location: Lafayette, IN	Views: 722	Collection Of: Gary Everhart
Locomotives: CIL 606(2-10-2)			Author: Gary Everhart

Picture Categories: Roster,Yard,Steam		This picture is part of album: CIL 2-10-2 #606 (Monon)

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