William Franckey wrote:
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> Karl wrote in about the '32......Many years ago, Dad was firing for Brady
> Tilton in the freight pool and they caught an afternoon run out of Galesburg
> with the 5625. I was hidden up in the cab off the pit and made it as far as
> their first work. It was not one of those fast runs but the noise I remember
> very clearly. Isn't it a shame no one carried video cameras like today?
Doubly so on 5625, Bill . . .
Because she was only the second O-5 to go to scrap (3-54), because she
had been equipped with Franklin rotary poppet valves. (Maintaining
stocks for a one-of-a-kind engine wasn't very economical) (5611 was the
first to go, but I don't know why. A wreck?)
Marshall
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