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4/10/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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:  509   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:  514   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:  351   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:  429   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:  398   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:  360   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:  435   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:  398   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:  424   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:  505   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:  382   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:  405   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:  398   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:  433   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:  412   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:  422   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:  552   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:  391   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:  246   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:  266   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:  280   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:  390   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:  602   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:  388   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:  329   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:  502   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:  337   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:  353   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:  344   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:  565   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:  556   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:  350   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:  340   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:  343   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:  516   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:  333   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:  464   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:  411   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:  355   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:  209   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:  224   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:  232   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:  226   Comments: 0


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