This morning while "wasting time" (my dad's words relative to my reading
RAILROAD MAGAZINE) perusing my "mother lode" of old RR Magazines purchased at
the St. Louis MOT on Friday 13th...certainly a "lucky day" for me, I came
across this piece in RAILROAD November 1939...page 86.
" At the request of Mr. M.C. Poor, President and General Manager of the
Broken Axel & Western R.R.: Mr. Ralph Budd, President of the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy RR had the bell and two front marker lights removed from
Locomotive Number 537 of the narrow gage Colorado & Southern, just before the
little engine was scrapped. These valuable articles will be presented
formally to the Chicago Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical
society this fall. The organization is planning on a Burlington night which
will feature, in addition to the presentation, colored movies of Colorado
narrow gage pikes, taken by the famous railroad photographer, Mr. Richard
Kindig of Denver".
This information may have been included in the recent BB article on the 537,
but rather than go through the whole thing again I thought that I would just
put it here as a matter of some interest.
I think that it is somewhat unlikely that Mr. Menk would have provided this
service had he been the man in charge when the 537 met its demise.
Pete
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