Locomotive 790
by Gary Keesler
Title
Locomotive 790
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Gary Keesler
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art Photography
Description
Locomotive No. 790 steamed for most of its career on rails of the Illinois Central, but began life with a very brief period of work for another carrier.
Chartered on October 31, 1888, by 1900 the Chicago Union Transfer Railway Company had 5.35 miles of line, but with second, third, and fourth tracks counted, as well as 25 miles of sidings, the company reported a total of 34.39 miles of track.
In the next 2 years, the company nearly tripled its track age to 100 miles.
It was probably this phenomenal growth that spurred the Chicago Union Transfer Railway to order a group of new 2-8-0 locomotives, among them No. 100, out shopped by the American Locomotive Company in September 1903 at its Cooke Works in Paterson, New Jersey.
The Chicago Union Transfer Railway served as a switching line connecting the track-age of various trunk lines that entered Chicago, and served a number of industries as well.
It is likely that a majority of its stock was in the hands of the various major railroads with which it connected.
Among its directors, for example, were E.P. Ripley, then president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System, and J.T. Harahan, a second vice president of the Illinois Central; a perusal of the biographies of the other directors probably would identify corporate officers of other major Chicago-area railroads.
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