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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:06:42 -0700
Subject: [CBQ] C&S on Q [2 Attachments]
Came across a couple more interesting images of C&S steam on the Q, so I'll post them -- just as attachments -- and see if everybody is able to access them.
Just coincidentally, both photos were taken in November 1949. The first shows C&S Ten-Wheeler 330, with sister 331 coupled behind, sitting in dead storage at Lincoln while the Q tries to find a use for them after it became obvious that as oil-burners, they could not be used on the St. Joseph Division, where they were headed following the discontinuance of trains 141-142 between Edgemont and Deadwood. They sat there on the deadline well into 1950 before finally being returned to the C&S at Denver for scrapping.
The second image is nearly identical to the one I posted of C&S heavy Pacific 371 on a Chicago-bound passenger train at Aurora, Ill., in November 1949. This one is also a Chicago-bound Q passenger train at Aurora in November 1949, but with C&S 372 on the point. So two oil-burning C&S Pacifics were in service on the east end of the Q at that time. I'm short on assignment sheets for that period, so I don't know if they show up or for how long. But most of all I'd love to know why they were there!
Hol