Heard from a trusted source that it survived. Looked em up, called em up and just got off the phone with the new owner and confirmed that it was saved. It's at the Farm Heritage Museum in Greenville IL. Definitely gonna stop by and see it sometime.
1. They grabbed it after the building was imploded. The guy I spoke to expressed displeasure that they blew up the building with the thing inside. Sounds like they were trying to get it before it was blown up but that the people in charge were more concerned with bringing Armour down ASAP.
1a. Obviously it took a beating when the building came down. She's probably in rough shape.
2. It will be a static display on their property. It does not sound like they have any intention of getting it operational. Which is understandable if you consider the complex system required to run such a fine ass piece of early 1900's engineering.
I'm just glad it wasn't cut up and sold for scrap. Even if it just becomes a rusty display piece, well it's better than scrap. I had hoped that City Museum would have gotten it somehow. I actually PM'd City Museum out of desperation on facebook back when this was going down in hopes that they might do something cool with it but either they weren't interested or this other museum beat em to it.
Go check it out, along with other groovy old stuff, here (I don't see any pics of it on their site but I'll definitely get some if I ever make it out that way):
http://www.americanfarmheritagemuseum.com/
