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Owner: Chicago Burlington & Quincy
Model:EMD E9ABuilt As:CBQ 9987A (E9A)
Serial Number:20537Order No:2071
Frame Number:2071-A5Built:12/1955
Notes:blt 12/1955, to BN 9987
Other locos with this serial:  NERR 9917(E9A) LTEX 9917(E9A) CBQ 9987A(E9A) BN 9987(E9A) BN 9917(E9AM)
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CB&Q E9 9987A
Title:  CB&Q E9 9987A
Description:  Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E9 9987A westbound at Naperville, Illinois on May 19, 1963, photograph by Chuck Zeiler. On Sunday evenings, the Burlington would run a few dozen E units from Chicago to Aurora on the Dinkys (commuter trains) to get ready for Monday morning's rush hour. On Friday evenings, the process would be reversed to get the E units into Chicago for rotation into Zephyr service.
Photo Date:  5/19/1963  Upload Date: 9/9/2016 5:28:21 PM
Location:  Naperville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
Picture 07, CB&Q/CRI&P Wreck
Title:  Picture 07, CB&Q/CRI&P Wreck
Description:  Repaired and became BN 9987.
Photo Date:  9/28/1964  Upload Date: 6/15/2007 10:00:19 PM
Location:  Montgomery, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  4513   Comments: 2
Picture 08, CB&Q/CRI&P Wreck
Title:  Picture 08, CB&Q/CRI&P Wreck
Description:  E7A 9922B was subsequently scrapped. She was 19 and obviously not worth the repair expense. E9A 9987A at the right however was returned to service.
Photo Date:  9/28/1964  Upload Date: 6/15/2007 10:00:20 PM
Location:  Montgomery, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CBQ 9922B(E7A) CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  7454   Comments: 2
CB&Q E9 9987A
Title:  CB&Q E9 9987A
Description:  Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E9 9987A at the Eola Illinois Reclamation Plant on October 11, 1964, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 9987A was built in December 1955 (c/n 20537), and was wrecked at Montgomery, Illinois on September 27, 1964. This unit was the third of three E-units (the rear of E7 9922B on the left was the second) leading Train Number 3, which was mis-directed into a standing, detouring Rock Island train and Number 3 struck the Rock Island train at about 52 mph. Four railroad employees were killed. After the wreck was cleaned up and service restored, the wreckage was moved to the Eola Reclamation Plant where it was held for a couple of weeks while the investigation took place. Number 9987A was repaired and returned to service, the other two CB&Q locomoives were scrapped.
Photo Date:  10/11/1964  Upload Date: 9/5/2016 12:38:41 PM
Location:  Eola, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Wreck
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  503   Comments: 2
CB&Q 9987A w/Builder in 1964
Title:  CB&Q 9987A w/Builder in 1964
Description:  Tr #32, Empire Builder
Photo Date:  10/13/1964  Upload Date: 11/6/2006 7:55:54 PM
Location:  Chadwick, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  1899   Comments: 0
CB&Q E9 9987A
Title:  CB&Q E9 9987A
Description:  Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E9 9987A at the 14th Street Zephyr Pit in Chicago, Illinois on March 7, 1965, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This locomotive was the only CB&Q survivor of a head-on collision at Montogmery, Illinois in 1964. It was the third unit of a three unit set of locomotives that collided with a detouring Rock Island passenger train. The first two CB&Q locomotives were E7's and the lead unit was destroyed beyond repair, and the second was deemed uneconomical to repair.
Photo Date:  3/7/1965  Upload Date: 6/5/2009 7:47:55 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  592   Comments: 0
CB&Q E9 9987A
Title:  CB&Q E9 9987A
Description:  Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E9 9987A eastbound at Naperville, Illinois on May 27, 1965, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This locomotive had been recently returned to service after wreck repairs, and I believe the whiskers ( nose stripes ) were a darker shade of red that usual.
Photo Date:  5/27/1965  Upload Date: 9/5/2016 7:06:52 PM
Location:  Naperville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
NCL No. 25
Title:  NCL No. 25
Description:  Wbnd at Mored siding.
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 11/25/2009 9:18:09 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Karl Rethwisch
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  750   Comments: 2
CBQ 9987A
Title:  CBQ 9987A
Description:  Passing Dunn @the east end of St Paul Yard on the Milwaukee Road and Dayton's Bluff on Burlington- "Running with the current of traffic" meaning east on the Eastward track along highway 61 between Oakland and the dispatcher @Newport--- this was joint double track with the Rock Island having trackage rights west of Newport to St Paul. It was left hand running because of the climb up and out of the Mississippi River valley west of St Croix Tower near Hastings, Minnesota on the Milwaukee and Prescott, Wisconsin on the Burlington--- where the St Croix river joins the mighty Mississippi on its way to New Orleans!!!
Photo Date:  12/31/1968  Upload Date: 8/16/2007 11:03:11 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  1255   Comments: 2
Going by Dunn yard
Title:  Going by Dunn yard
Description:  out of St Paul and after passing Oakland tower, an eastbound CB&Q passenger train was seen racing by the east end of Dunn yard which in those days was only four tracks. The joint double track was still train orders and was left hand running.
Photo Date:  3/16/1969  Upload Date: 7/1/2010 12:49:09 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  594   Comments: 0
Going to Chicago
Title:  Going to Chicago
Description:  Eastbound CB&Q passenger train out of St Paul races along Hwy 61 in a time when it was NOT the madhouse, that it is today!
Photo Date:  3/16/1969  Upload Date: 7/1/2010 12:54:20 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  696   Comments: 0
CBQ 9987A
Title:  CBQ 9987A
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/25/1970  Upload Date: 4/27/2009 12:38:31 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  E.D. Motis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CBQ 9987A(E9A)
Views:  627   Comments: 0


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