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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Wed Feb 2 21:56:26 2011
Subject: Just after leaving Louisville KY with Southern 401 loaded up on SOU 50901 enroute E. St. Louis, our standing train, waiting on a siding for clearance, was hit head-on by another train that split a snow-packed switch. We waited for the better part of a day for the crews to clear the resulting derailment and repair the tracks.
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Fri Aug 27 15:12:53 2010
Subject: Southern Railway 401 has its front deck plate in place for final fit up on August 26, 2010 at the Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello IL.
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401FrontDeck004.jpg    217538 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Sun Sep 12 16:24:39 2010
Subject: Last time I went to Monticello the pilot was a skeleton and mechanics were debating how to get both the crimped end and the right angle to make the boiler tubes flay out in the proper (and symetrical) direction. They obviously figured it out and the result looks perfect.
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Fri Aug 27 12:37:27 2010
Subject: The right front deck plate for Southern 401 being restored at the Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello IL is fitted up before being painted and installed on August 19, 2010.
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401FittingFrtDeck_Plate.jpg    209529 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Fri Aug 27 15:14:59 2010
Subject: Southern Railway 401 sits in the shops where it is undergoing restoration on August 26, 2010 at the Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello IL. This view gives a perspective on the size of the locomotive shop.
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401ShopViewFront.jpg    200841 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Fri Aug 27 15:24:08 2010
Subject: Southern Railway 401 sits in the shops where it is undergoing restoration on August 26, 2010 at the Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello IL. This view of the right front shows the engine with both steam chest covers removed after compressed air bubble testing for leaks, hence the bottle of Dove detergent on the front deck plate.
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401ShopViewFrtRight.jpg    197647 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Sat Aug 21 14:18:54 2010
Subject: It's a rainy day in Margerum, AL in January 1968 as two steam crane crews load a 1907 Baldwin 2-8-0 for its trip to what would become the Monticello Railway Museum in Illinois. The ex-Southern Railway Consolidation No. 401 will likely return to service after a 15-year restoration effort in September, 2010.
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401Loading07.jpg    194606 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Fri Aug 27 12:46:25 2010
Subject: Southern Railway No. 401's front steps were positioned with clamps to their brackets before bolt hole drilling to determine the proper height from the top of the rail. The skeletal frame of the pilot will be covered with boiler tubing cut the proper length and smashed flat on both ends.
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401FrontPilotStep.jpg    186615 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Sun Sep 12 16:30:19 2010
Subject: Sitting in the Monticello Railway Museum locomotive shop, Southern Railway 401 has a new life with one day under its belt following successful testing the day before. 401 will debut at the museum's Railroad Days September 18-19, 2010.
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401FrontSept11002.jpg    180548 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Fri Aug 27 15:09:25 2010
Subject: The front deck plate was plasma cut at Heritage Machine Shop in Bloomington IL to fit around the braces and the upper end of the front truck suspension, which slides up and down as the engine go into a curve, somehow adjusting the distribution of weight through a complicated levers and fulcrums (or so I was told).
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FrontDeck001.jpg    178521 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Mon Sep 20 15:53:27 2010
Subject: While the rest of the Monticello Railway Museum members were enjoying a fish fry nearby, crew members dined on Pizza Hut food on the grass adjacent to Southern Railway No. 401 as it hissed and sizzled just feet away.
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401CrewChowsDown.jpg    176655 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Mon Sep 20 15:47:54 2010
Subject: Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 2 p.m., locomotive mechanics and those who worked behind the scenes to bring Southern Railway back to life posed for a rebuilders photo on the grounds of the Monticello Railway Museum.
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Rebuilders_Photo.jpg    172795 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Thu Jul 26 11:01:21 2012
Subject: Southern 401 poses at the Nelsons Crossing depot on the ground of the Monticello Railway Musseum.
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Nelsons.jpg    172735 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Wed Feb 2 21:58:52 2011
Subject: In the 1980's, Southern 401 was dolled up for display at the Monticello Railway Museum after its jacket and lagging had been removed.
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40106.jpg    169473 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Fri Aug 27 11:57:07 2010
Subject: New pipes for Southern 401's sanders were bent around the tires of another steamer on hand at the Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello IL on August 19, 2010. Snagging one end of the pipe in the brake rigging, two volunteers wrapped it around the driver tire, later cutting the ends to fit up with the descending pipe from the sand dome.
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Bending_Sand_Pipes_a.jpg    168479 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Thu Jul 26 10:45:20 2012
Subject: After a hot day pulling the museum's train, Southern 401 awaits orders to put the consist into the newly-built car storage barn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMVhIGV5vxQ
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July21_22Sou401ad.jpg    168299 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Fri Aug 27 11:46:58 2010
Subject: Here is a left side shot of Southern 401 in the shops at the Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello IL, on August 19, 2010 showing the reassembled rods.
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401_Rods_Front_Left.jpg    164776 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Mon Sep 20 15:44:42 2010
Subject: On Friday afternoon, September 17, Southern Railway steam locomotive No. 401 sat under the smoke jack in the engine house as wisps of smoke came out of the stack. Engine was fired up for final testing before Railroad Days at the Monticello Railway Museum and later took a two-car special with members aboard to the Lions Club Fish Fry downtown.
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401_in_Enginehouse.jpg    164618 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Fri Aug 27 12:40:15 2010
Subject: Southern 401 gets conduit for a smoke stack light on August 19, 2010, at the Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello IL.
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401InstallingStackLight.jpg    163485 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Sun Sep 12 16:39:43 2010
Subject: While things are bustling in the steam shops as half a dozen mechanics work to get Souther Railway 301 ready for its debut next weekend, regular museum trains operated with CN 6789, an FPA-4, built in 1959. To the left is the former Deland IL Illinois Central depot now dubbed Nelson's Crossing after an original IT stop at the road.
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CNrunsSaturday.jpg    161615 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Thu Jul 26 10:59:02 2012
Subject: Southern 401 poses in the Camp Creek Yard October 2010.
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401_01-2.jpg    159476 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Thu Jul 26 10:47:03 2012
Subject: Southern 401 is ready to return to the museum grounds on Saturday, July 21 during steam weekend.
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May22Sou401ab.jpg    154143 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Mon Sep 20 15:50:26 2010
Subject: Museum members on hand rode a special downtown to the Lions Club Fish Fry in the community build in Monticello IL. The restored Souther Railway No. 401 sat for about an hour in town as admiring spectators gathered around for pictures or just to look.
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Friday_Fish_Train.jpg    153973 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Mon Sep 20 15:56:24 2010
Subject: Southern Railway No. 401 basks in the late afternoon sunshine on Friday, September 17, in downtown Monticello. just before its official debut for Railroad Days at the Monticello Railway Museum the weekend of September 18-19.
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401_Downtown_Friday.jpg    152333 bytes

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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com
Date: Wed Nov 3 16:51:33 2010
Subject: Loading Southern Railway No. 401, Margerum AL, January 1968
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401Loading05.jpg    149560 bytes


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