Two Midwestern Locomotives 



Among the early locomotives that have survived is the 

 Pioneer (figure 46), the first to have steamed out of Chicago, 

 this having occurred on October 25, 1848, at the opening of 

 the Galena and Chicago Union Rail Road. Built early in 

 1836, the Pioneer was the 37th constructed by Matthias W. 

 Baldwin and is the oldest Baldwin locomotive now in 

 existence. 



It was originally sold to the Utica and Schenectady Rail 

 Road, in New York's Mohawk Valley, and was their loco- 

 motive No. 7. Later it was sold to the Michigan Central Rail- 

 road, by whom it was reportedly renamed the Alert, a name 

 that is open to question. From the latter road the Galena 

 and Chicago Union obtained it in 1848. 



In order to get the locomotive to Chicago, it had to be 

 shipped by boat across Lake Michigan from Michigan City, 

 Ind., and hauled by teams to the tracks. The little Baldwin 

 locomotive at this time was given the name Pioneer. Its new 

 owner, the Galena and Chicago Union, later, in 1864, was 

 merged into the then 5-year-old Chicago and North West- 

 ern Railway Co. 



Figure 46. — Chicago and North Western's ?\oneer , built in 1836 and oldest 

 Baldwin locomotive in existence, as repainted for Chicago Railroad Fair of 1 948. 



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