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Subject: CB&Q 4-8-2s.
From: Denny Anspach <danspach@m...>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:47:53 -0500
In-reply-to: <995358197.364.77783.l10@yahoogroups.com>
When growning up along the Q in Riverside in the late 30's and '40s, I became very familiar with virtually all of the motive power common to the line east of Aurora (or at least east of Eola). Pacifics, Hudsons, Northerns, and Mikados made up just about all of it. No small locomotives. No 2-10-4s. Occasionally, I might see a switcher coming through on a transfer or light move, but that was about it.
A spectacular exception, and then only on rare occasions, was to see a 
4-8-2, and when I did see one it was always on the head end of a mail or 
mail and express train that would come through Riverside east bound in the 
mid afternoon or so. The occasion was so rare that in retrospect, I suspect 
that these trains might have been extras (do I remember white flags? Even 
if I understood in those days what the white flags meant (I did not, I 
don't recall them), It could also have been running as First # ____, or as 
Second #____ (I do not have contemporary timetables available at the 
moment). What *was* memorable was that these locomotives were truly swift, 
and the speed at which it brought its train down the center main was with 
no less panache, drama, or sheer energy than any Hudson or Northern.
Does anyone on the list have knowledge of the assignments of these 
locomotives in that part of the system in those years, and more 
specifically, why they were so rarely seen in Chicago?
Denny




Denny S. Anspach, MD
Sacramento, CA


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