Cornwall Street Railway Light & Power 14




Facts and Figures


Current Number14
Railway RepresentedCornwall Street Railway Light & Power
BuilderBaldwin/Westinghouse
Built In1929
Builder's order id60701
Currently in (State)Illinois
--(Locality)Union
Totally out of svc date1972
(Initial retirement date)1971
Car Typelocomotive
-subtypeB-W steeplecab
-designationType B-1
Statusdisplayed inoperable
More infohttp://www.irm.org/player/csrlp14
Gauge4'8.5"
Constructionsteel
Roof typeAR
EndedDE
Length35'5"
Width9'0"
Height11'10"
Weight100000
#Seatsn/a
#Wheels/Conf.8
Total HP400
TrucksBaldwin
Brakes14EL (K14)
CompressorWABCO D3F (2)
ControlWH HLF (337D2)
MotorsWH 562D5 (4)
Voltage (if not 600DC)

Locomotive 14 on display at IRM in 2022
Railroad Picture Archives
photo: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5789891

Locomotive 14 in operation at IRM in 2002
Illinois Railway Museum
photo: https://www.irm.org/gallery/CSRLP14/aab

Car History by Frank Hicks


Cornwall Street Railway Light & Power 14
The Baldwin-Westinghouse type B-1 steeplecab was intended to reduce manufacturing costs by simplifying the design of the basic type B steeplecab. Due to the shrinking interurban network in the 1920's, only twelve were built, and only two survive. Of them, locomotive 14 is the newer unit and was the second-to-last type B-1 ever built. Built for stock in early 1929, it was sold to ST later in the year and operated there with another type B-1 in mainly switching and short-haul freight service. In 1956 ST dieselized its freight operations and 14 was sold to Cornwall, where it joined an odd assortment of secondhand electric locomotives in servicing the various industries on the CSRL&P system. It operated at Cornwall until that system too was dieselized and 14 was sold to IRM; upon arrival in Union it ran itself off the flatcar and has operated at IRM consistently ever since.


Ownership History


OwnerCar NumFromToPreservation?Loan?
Springfield Terminal (Vermont, Springfield)201929 1956 NO NO
Cornwall Street Railway Light & Power (Ontario, Cornwall)141956 1971 NO NO
Cornwall Transit (Ontario, Cornwall)141971 1972 NO NO
Illinois Railway Museum (Illinois, Union)141972 present YES NO