West Burlington had no turntable, so they didn't need
a saddle tank "shop goat". They used standard
switchers with tenders. The idea of a tank engine was
that it could ride on the turntable with the dead
engine being "hostled".
John D. Mitchell, Jr.
--- William Ewinger <b_ewinger@y...> wrote:
> you show nothing for west burlington shops howcome?
> bill ewinger
> --- Russell Strodtz <vlbg@e...> wrote:
> > As of 01-Apr-45 Divisional assignments of shop
> > engines was
> > as follows:
> >
> > Chicago: 302
> > Galesburg: 310, 8900
> > Creston: 308
> > Hannibal: 303
> > St Joseph: 300
> > Lincoln: 305
> > McCook: 306
> > Denver: 304
> > Alliance: 311 (Lignite burner)
> > Sheridan: 8901
> >
> > Russ
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@h...>
> > To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, 20 February, 2003 09:10
> > Subject: [BRHSlist] re: Shop Swtr #303
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Per Corbin's "Steam Locos..." #303 was 1 of
> > several G class 0-6-0's reblt as
> > > shop swtrs (300-314 series). 303 was blt in
> > Aurora in 1903 as #1648,
> > > renumbered to #1443 in the system renumbering
> that
> > year & became 303 in
> > > March of "31. Pics of a number of these (but
> not
> > 303) are in Corbin and
> > > some survived into 1950's. #303 was assigned to
> > the Chicago Div in "35 & on
> > > the Hannibal Div in "52. I have a snapshot of
> it
> > taken @ Bushnell, IL in
> > > 1935, apparently stored in yard. Gerald
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> > removed]
> >
> >
>
>
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