CB&Q engine with my grandfather

Great picture, thanks for posting!

Yes great photo...thanks for posting it.

Chris

Thanks guys...hoped you would like it.

I have semi-mixed emotions about that...I remember him working at the Aurora round house and as I recall he took me there 2-3 times when I was very young. One time there was some kind of steamer there and a worker asked my grandfather if he should "toot the horn"....I was probably 3-4ish then...and of course, grandpa said yeah. They didn't just toot the whistle...they laid on it, inside where it echoed...scared the heck out of me and of course grandpa just laughed! Thinking back it seemed huge, but was probably just an 0-6-0.  

Nice picture and great family memories! #5052 is about as "Q" as you can get: cuckoo clock headlight and "grape arbor" tender. This engine is an O1, an earlier 2-8-2, that was supplanted by the much more succesful O1a. O1a's were the last steam locomotives in regular service on the CB&Q (Jan 1959) and 1 leased to the Bevier & Southern, which ran to about 1962 or '63.

Thanks for that, Bob.  It's really a snapshot of times past.

Thanks for posting, Bob.  I always like seeing fellow Forumites' photos showing their railroad connections.

Thanks for the dope on the engine, Mark.