[CBQ] Re: F3 Steam Generator Removal

["bdurham260" <bdurham260@yahoo.com>]

I thought I had read some place that they were retired in place??

Brian Durham

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@...> wrote:
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> Bob:
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> These units were regeared for freight service in 1955, and it has always 
> baffled me why their boilers weren't removed and the units repainted into 
> freight colors at that time -- but clearly they weren't.  One would have to 
> presume that the boilers were removed when the units were repainted into 
> freight colors in 1958, as no photos I've seen of them in white indicate the 
> presence of the boiler equipment, though as you say, it's impossible to tell 
> in some photos.
>  
> Hol
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> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> From: herrick@...
> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 01:18:12 +0000
> Subject: [CBQ] F3 Steam Generator Removal
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> Anyone know when the steam generators were removed from the F3 sets 
> originally built for CZ service? One of the cover photos for Al Holck's first 
> volume on the Q's motive power shows one of the sets in 1957 still in 
> aluminum paint and what appears to be the roof appurtences still in place. In 
> later photos from 1958 on in Al's books as well as Spoor's volumes, when the 
> units had been repainted in freight colors, the roof vents or whatever they 
> were are not evident although it's hard to tell from the angle of the shots.
> 
> Bob Herrick
>




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