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Owner: Charles City & Western
Model:UNKNOWN Steeple CabBuilt As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:Order No:
Frame Number: Built:
Notes:McGuire-Cummings built 1915
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Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  McGuire-Cummings Steeplecab in the restoration shnp.
Photo Date:  4/17/2005  Upload Date: 9/12/2010 1:42:31 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  466   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  Steeplecab electric locomotive built by McGuire-Cummings in 1915.
Photo Date:  5/25/2008  Upload Date: 5/20/2010 3:52:11 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  461   Comments: 0
CCW 300
Title:  CCW 300
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/4/2008  Upload Date: 3/29/2009 6:01:31 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  318   Comments: 0
CCW 300
Title:  CCW 300
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/16/2009  Upload Date: 5/18/2009 4:10:22 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Jamie Joyce
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  377   Comments: 0
CCW 300
Title:  CCW 300
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/11/2009  Upload Date: 7/11/2009 9:42:23 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  363   Comments: 0
Illinois Railway Museum
Title:  Illinois Railway Museum
Description:  This nicecly restored Charles City Western freight motor
Photo Date:  9/13/2009  Upload Date: 9/13/2009 10:41:54 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Peter Z.
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  325   Comments: 0
CCW 300
Title:  CCW 300
Description:  Charles City & Western Steeple Cab #300, sits on display in one of the barns at IRM
Photo Date:  7/15/2010  Upload Date: 7/21/2010 4:02:32 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Spencer Wagen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  397   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/19/2010  Upload Date: 11/18/2010 9:51:19 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
Charles City Western Railway #300
Title:  Charles City Western Railway #300
Description:  Parade Entry #18 - Steeplecab Locomotive built by McGuire-Cummings in 1915.
Photo Date:  7/6/2013  Upload Date: 7/7/2013 4:21:08 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  390   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/3/2017  Upload Date: 7/4/2017 11:40:26 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  445   Comments: 1
IRM's full service Steeple-Cab Wash
Title:  IRM's full service Steeple-Cab Wash
Description:  Splish-splash for Charles City Western #300. Having completed a fifteen-year restoration, volunteers clean off this 102-year-old locomotive before it makes its public operations debut.
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:08:23 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  344   Comments: 0
Leaving Yard 4
Title:  Leaving Yard 4
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:12:28 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  364   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  1915 McGuire-Cummings Steeple Cab Locomotive.
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:13:02 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  354   Comments: 0
Operational Debut
Title:  Operational Debut
Description:  of Charles City Western #300
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:15:02 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  379   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:15:41 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  It owes the missing journal cover to the unique design. Unlike the flip covers of other friction baring trucks these are separate from the journal box. Leaving them susceptible to falling off if not correctly tightened or worked loose during operation.
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:16:27 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  Deput of public operations.
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:18:55 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  495   Comments: 0
Interurban Locomotive out on the Mainline
Title:  Interurban Locomotive out on the Mainline
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:21:03 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  334   Comments: 0
300 Going to Bed
Title:  300 Going to Bed
Description:  Pulling into barn 8.
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:33:08 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  209   Comments: 0
1915 McGuire-Cummings Locomotive
Title:  1915 McGuire-Cummings Locomotive
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:33:53 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
Tied Down in Barn 8
Title:  Tied Down in Barn 8
Description:  The journal box cover now back in place.
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 4:55:46 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
CCW 300
Title:  CCW 300
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/16/2017  Upload Date: 9/17/2017 12:54:46 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Jamie Joyce
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  Taking North Shore Line #604 around the trolley loop. Locomotive 300 was built by McGuire-Cummings in 1915.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/3/2018 4:57:27 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab) CNSM 604(MOW Trolley)
Views:  530   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  The 103-year-old Iowa Steeplecab departs for Central Avenue during Traction Weekend.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/3/2018 4:58:31 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  348   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/3/2018 5:27:32 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
CCW #300 & CNS&M #604
Title:  CCW #300 & CNS&M #604
Description:  Doing laps around the Trolley Loop for Traction Weekend.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/3/2018 5:36:11 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab) CNSM 604(MOW Trolley)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/3/2018 5:51:12 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  281   Comments: 1
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  Taking a break from circling the Trolley Loop.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/3/2018 5:52:46 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  304   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/3/2018 5:54:15 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
Which color will you ride?
Title:  Which color will you ride?
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/28/2018 11:41:03 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Edward Weisensel
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  515   Comments: 0
Down at the Depot
Title:  Down at the Depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 1:36:30 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab) CAE 309(Interurban)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  Making a reverse move out of station track 2 to Union before making a mainline run with the caboose train.
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 1:41:46 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  Making a reverse move out of station track 2 to Union before making a mainline run with the caboose train.
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 1:42:54 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  295   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  Eastbound on the mainline with the caboose train.
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 1:43:58 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
The Crowds
Title:  The Crowds
Description:  Caboose train heads east on the main and 1630 waits for its next departure on station track 2.
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 1:45:17 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 1630(2-10-0) CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  456   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  Pulling into station track 2, CCW #300 would moments later sufer a failure that end its service for the day.
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 2:25:57 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
Charles City Western #300
Title:  Charles City Western #300
Description:  Mechanical issues prevented #300 from completing its final run of the day. MTRY #200 was called for the last run of the caboose train.
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 2:27:26 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  403   Comments: 0
Down at the Depot
Title:  Down at the Depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 2:28:53 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab) SLSF 1630(2-10-0)
Views:  336   Comments: 0
Steeple cab & Steam Locomotive
Title:  Steeple cab & Steam Locomotive
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 2:47:24 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 1630(2-10-0) CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
CCW 300
Title:  CCW 300
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/26/2021  Upload Date: 7/15/2021 2:39:02 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Nathan Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
CCW 300
Title:  CCW 300
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/3/2021  Upload Date: 10/17/2021 3:56:39 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Nicholas Katz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Track
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
Charles City Western Steeplecab 300
Title:  Charles City Western Steeplecab 300
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/15/2022  Upload Date: 6/24/2022 10:00:42 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Wil Hata
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  190   Comments: 0
CCW 300
Title:  CCW 300
Description:  Charles City Western 300 is the only surviving example of an electric locomotive built by the McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Co. of Chicago.
Photo Date:  7/1/2023  Upload Date: 7/9/2023 8:06:55 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Jeff Van Cleve
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CCW 300(Steeple Cab)
Views:  187   Comments: 0


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