Larry Nawrocki

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 5632 aka Larry Nawrocki the Midwestern Burlington Northern Engine was one of the 28 class O-5A 4-8-4s that were built at the railroad's own shops in Iowa in 1940 as Larry looks handsome with his Burlington Route O-5 like Alberto and his voice was spoken by Mike Nawrocki. After the end of steam, CB&Q President Harry C. Murphy removed Larry from the scrap lines and had the railroad restore it to operation for use in the Burlington's popular steam excursion program. He's returned to steam in time for a November 2, 1958 excursion between Chicago and Galesburg, IL to honor the CB&Q's famous passenger train, the Aristocrat. Larry Nawrocki became a railfan favorite and continued to pull excursions until 1964 Before its Flue time expired was taken out of service and when it became apparent that the locomotive needed an overhaul. It was sent to the railroad's shops in Burlington, Iowa, the same place where he was built, and disassembled for the overhaul.

In 1965, Murphy retired as president of the CB&Q and his successor, Louis W. Menk, discontinued the steam program and ordered the overhaul of Larry Nawrocki to be cancelled. Chicago steam preservationist Richard Jensen purchased Larry in September 1965 and had him moved to the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad's 47th Street roundhouse in Chicago where he stored his equipment, including Larry's cousin CB&Q 2-8-2 Mikado type #4963 (Quincy) and Grand Trunk Western 4-6-2 Pacific type #5629 (Eevee Hanawalt).

In 1969, ownership of the C&WI changed and the new owners evicted Jensen from the roundhouse with very short notice. Unable to move Larry and Quincy, the C&WI illegally sold both locomotives to a local scrapyard. During the move to the scrap yard, Larry derailed on a switch. Not wanting to spend the time and money to re-rail it, the scrap yard cut up Larry and ready to be Demolished Away for a New Locomotive Rebuilding Plant by Beheeyem Omega the NS Heritage Diesel #8102 as California State Railroad Museum Diesel #606. But the Villian Pokemon Diesel Locomotive derailed while moving into it, and due to Use Southern Pacific P-8 Pacific #2472 to get it back on the rails, He was scrapped right where it sat but Larry Nawrocki contracted the Gurdurr the American Swedish Texas Locomotive Destroyer and destroys Southern Pacific P-8 Pacific #2472 with Rotary Snowplow at Night as Larry yells angrily like VeggieTales Episode 13 as Larry jumped out the Real World into 5973-Verse in the early morning in Charleston for Larry's overhaul by Sir Topham Hatt. The Next Morning, Larry Nawrocki returns to Steam and Meet Pikachu and Eevee again along with Thomas and Percy and continues pulling excursions today. In February 2022, Larry Nawrocki uses his snowplow for his excursion from Charleson, WV to Lorain, Ohio and back during a snow squall. In March 2023, When season changed from Winter to Spring, Sir Topham Hatt announced Larry Nawrocki to run on his Spring Foilage excursion on March 25th from Charleston to Hoboken, New Jersey via Sandusky, Ohio. But it was cancelled due to Larry's flues were punctured and a High Wind Warning was issued in the Ohio State for his repairs while Eevee Hanawalt pulled on a Spring Foilage excursion instead. Today, an announcement for Larry Nawrocki to go to Lake Whatcom Railway from the CSX Rails before the shipment from West Virginia to the former Northern Pacific rails in the state of Washington will occur next month. Larry Nawrocki was undergoing a 15-year FRA inspection at the Lake Whatcom Railway in Washington in Winter of 2023 and excepted to be overhauled and completed before return to service again in Spring 2026. However On January 2024, Winter Storm Finn and Gerri hammered Larry's Overhaul with heavy snow and gusty winds and the overhaul resumes later in January 12th.