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From: | "'John D. Mitchell, Jr.' cbqrr47@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> |
Date: | Wed, 4 Feb 2015 22:19:40 +0000 (UTC) |
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All I can tell you is that 4976 had a bad reputation as hard to fire. From: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 2:15 PM Subject: [CBQ] Last L&B O-1-A In Service [1 Attachment] February 4, 2015
John - Class O-1-A 4976 most likely was the last L&B front end
locomotive to steam on the Q. In her memory, here's an image (inserted and
attached) of 4976 switching hopper cars at Herrin Junction, IL, on December 30,
1958.
![]() 4976 was also sold for scrap in June 1961, almost certainly to Northwestern
Steel & Wire in Sterling, IL. From this image, 4976 had been "modernized"
with a slanted-inward coal bunker for better visibility when running in reverse.
The Class O-1-A locomotives were a highly successful design and lasted until the
bitter end of steam in the southern Illinois coal fields.
One last question about L&B front ends. When the locomotives so
equipped wandered east of lignite territory, were the baffles/netting removed
for better drafting? Or, were the front ends left intact? Any one know or
venture to offer an opinion? I've always heard that L&B locomotives used on
Lines East did not draft as well as their sisters with conventional smoke boxes.
Best Regards - Louis
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Another L&B equipped engine, that spent the last ten years or so, on
the Beardstown Division, was 4976, which was one of the last five active steam
engines at Herrin Junction.
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