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Glen...That would put it IIRC in about the center of the WYE which laid almost perpendicular to the main track with the stem to the east almost directly east of the depot. The single stall engine house which was there in 56 is still standing there in it's same location just about directly east of the depot.
If memory serves correctly and it usually does when it comes to trivia matters of no special value we never turned the engine, just left it sit outside (south) of the engine house. There was a roundhouse guy whose name was Roy and who had a big black dog that came over the 3 nights each week the engine was there and "fiddled" around with the engine all night. His main duty then was to take us train crew guys "up town" for breakfast...
He worked 3 nights at Sargent and the other three at Burwell doing the same thing. I never figured out why those guys were necessary....there was a like position at Fairmont where the guy worked 6 nights a week since there was an engine there those 6 nights....That job had been cut off sometime in early 1958..shortly before I got the Hildreth local job. Since those light weight SD &'s had a small fuel tank they could only make one round trip without fueling we had to change engines with No. 71 the Lincoln-Hastings local each trip.
Pete
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From: GLEN glenehaug@msn.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, Mar 16, 2017 7:55 pm Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Broken Bow, NE Pete:
I have a reference for the removed turntable at Sargent from an old station map. It was shown as a 55' turntable, opposite ML survey station 1732+02 (MP 72.99), which was about 540' east of the centerline of the depot (MP 73.09).
Glen Haug
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:24 AM To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Broken Bow, NE Those locations are possibilities ie Burwell and Sargent ...If there was a turntable at Sargent i'm not sure where it was..The engine house is still there and it reposed in the center of a WYE which lay in a generally
east-west direction. During my tenure as a brakeman on the Hastings-Sargent local in summer 1956 we never put the GP 9 or 7 in the house AND I don't think it was turned since these engines had dual controls. Maybe there never was a TT at Sargent??? I know
someone could look it up, but I'm not interested in doing that. .
The turntable at Burwell is still there IN PLACE, but the engine house is "no more"...
Pete
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From: Scott Manley scott.manley@smsooland.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, Mar 16, 2017 12:30 pm Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Broken Bow, NE Could this possibly be Burwell or Sargent Nebraska?
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Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:15 AM To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Broken Bow, NE March 16, 2017
Archie - I've got good views of the branch line roundhouses at both Wymore, MO, and Red Oak, IA, and this image was not taken at either location, as far as I can tell. Don't recall seeing
before such a flimsy pipe railing on the armstrong turntable. Both Wymore and Red Oak has more substantial wood and pipe railings. Thanks for sharing. Best Regards - Louis
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