| Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad 0-6-0 Class G-1 1344 at an unknown location in 1914, photographer unknown. According to the book, Steam Locomotives Of The Burlington Route, by Bernard G. Corbin and William F. Kerka, number 1344 was built in 1889 as an 0-6-0 by CB&Q's West Burlington Shops as number 298, renumbered in 1898 to 1298, renumbered again in 1904 to 1344, and was retired in August 1921. Hol Wagner adds: I'm fairly sure the 1344 is simply doing one of its designed chores: shoving a tender, disconnected from its locomotive, into the Ottumwa roundhouse for repair or temporary storage while the locomotive was worked on. And the roundhouse is almost certainly at Ottumwa, the 1344 being assigned to the Ottumwa Division in 1914. |