Pete: Looking thru my scrapbook, I found a picture of Engine 411, which was
involved in a wreck on March 2, 1965. The engine was on a train between
Wymore and Table Rock . The wreck happened just east of Kinney Hill between
Wymore and Liberty. Crew of Engine 411 were all Wymore men, none injured in
the mishap. W. S. Day, engineer, Bernard Goes, Orville Milburn, and R. M.
Huls. You might remember this wreck and know these fellows? O. W. Wells
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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: question (revised)
> Dave and list
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> RE the lightweight SD7's. You commented that these engines were purchased
> specifically for use on the O'Neil Branch...I read this somewhere else
lately
> also.
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> I think that there is a bit more to it than just the O'Neil Branch. I
think
> that these units were purchased for use on all of the branches (in
Nebraska
> for sure and maybe elsewhere as well). Where rail and bridge weight
> considerations were important.
>
> These engines, purchased in 1952 if memory serves correctly, were put into
> service originally on the Wymore Division branches ie DeWitt-Hildreth,
> Lincoln-Nebraska City, Tecumseh-Auburn and Nebraska City switcher I think
> that the heavier engines could operate on the Columbus Branch. The
purchase
> of the lightweight SD7's (400-411) marked the end of steam on the Wymore
> Branch lines and changed the way that several of the locals were operated.
> WYMORE STORY has the full details.
>
> I worked the Fairmont-Hildreth local for about 3 months summer 1958 and we
> always had one of the 400-411 series engines. They had smaller fuel tanks
> and could only make one round trip Fairmont-Hildreth without refuelling
and
> consequently we traded engines with the Lincoln-Hastings local at Fairmont
> prior to each trip west. These engines also had dual controls thus
> eliminating the need for turntable at Nelson, Hebron, Hildreth and also
the
> wyes at the end of some of the stub end branches. There was a wye at
Huntley
> and maybe at Lushton where we turned the motorcars (9769 in 1956)...I
> believe that the Huntley branch from Ayr Jct was upgraded in the 1960's
> sometime to handle the SD7's also.
>
> All of that to say that the O'Neil branch was not the only haunt of these
> engines.
>
> Pete Hedgpeth
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