OWW III
I knew Orville Milburn quite well..worked with him a few times. I'll give
you a little story about him off list.
Dave Lotz Maybe you can talk OWW III into letting you using his wreck
picture if you need that kind of thing for your Bulletin Article.
I've been doing a little thinking.....surprise...surprise. And I think that
I have some pix of some of the 400-411 series engines in service on the St.
Joe Division in the early to mid fifties. I think that one of them was used
to pull a train of dead engines from St. Joe to P. Jct on their way to Eola
for scrap in January 54.. Seems like it was the 407, but I'll need to look
it up. I skipped school that afternoon and went to Nishnabotna with my dad
where the funeral train was on the siding for a meet with No. 72. I've got
movies of the meet. We then raced up to Langdon to photograph the "runby".
I've got movies of that and also my dad made a detailed list (he was a much
more detailed record keeper than I will ever be) of the train including the
numbers of the idler gons as well as the dead steam engines. Think that
there were about 5-6 of them.
I think that I also have pix of some of these engines at Corning on locals
in the mid 50's. If any of this would be helpful to you I can attempt to
get it dug up. I'm in the process of trying to organize over 100 years of
family pictures and about 60 years of RR pix so it might be awhile, but if
you could use what I've mentioned here I think I could come up with it fairly
soon. Also my old time book could reveal where some of the engines were in
the 56-58 period.
In looking again at Burlington In Transition I note the comment regarding the
lightweights that they were purchased for the O'Neil branch. Maybe that's
where your info came from also....I knew I had seen it somewhere fairly
recently.
Pete
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