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Burlington Bulletin #41 Q 537 & Ira Eigsti's Buda Illinois CB&Q #537 2-8-0 narro
Burlington Bulletin Number 41 Q 537 & Ira Eigsti's Buda Illinois
91 Pages
CB&Q #537, the Burlington's best known narrow gauge 2-8-0, with information on the other Black Hills narrow gauge locomotives. Also, 14 pages on Ira Eigsti's Buda, Illinois, with 20 late 1940's, early 1950's photos in and around Buda, located on the Chicago-Galesburg mainline.
First 73 pages on CB&Q #537, the Burlington's best known narrow gauge 2-8-0, with information on the other Black Hills narrow gauge locomotives. Also, 14 pages on Ira Eigsti's Buda, Illinois, with 20 late 1940's, early 1950's photos in and around Buda, located on the Chicago-Galesburg mainline.
Serendipity: the faculty of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for. There's just no other word for it; serendipity - and a great deal of luck - are largely responsible for the comprehensive nature of this BULLETIN devoted to a single locomotive. How so? It's a rambling story that begins when BRHS member Don Meeker of Caboose Hobbies in Denver asked me if I would be willing to present a clinic at the 2003 National Narrow Gauge Convention. He suggested something on the Colorado & Southern, and I countered with CB&Q 537, the Burlington narrow gauge 2-8-0 that spent its final years in Colorado, leased to the C&S. I had begun setting aside photos of the 537 for this clinic when I realized that another commitment would have me far from Denver at the time of the 2003 convention. So I begged off with Don, suggesting that instead I would cover the 537 in a BULLETIN feature. BRHS member Ken Martin quickly came to my rescue, offering to present a clinic on C&S narrow gauge passenger equipment at the convention in my stead.
My biggest concern about a feature article on the 537 was the lack of plans for this distinctive locomotive. I had prepared some crude diagram-style drawings of the engine back in the CB&Q Historical Society days of the early 1970s, and I was afraid they might have to suffice. Then, just days into the start of work on the BULLETIN feature, I received a forwarded e-mail from the D&RGW.
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