Just a minor observation..... the forward sand dome was also shifted forward
to make room for the new position of the rear dome, at least that is what it
appears to have happened according to the pictures of #6323 .
Charlie
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From: "Rupert and Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>
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Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:23 AM
Subject: [BRHSlist] M-4-A extras
> According to "Steam Locos of the Burlington Route", #6323 was converted to
> Class M-4-A in June 1935 and sold for scrap in April 1961. The latest
photo
> I've found of #6323 was taken at Galesburg in July 1956 as part of a
> railfan special (Steam Locos page 133).
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> After a period of between 1 and 4 years on the Galesburg deadline, all 18
> members of the class were sold for scrap to Northwestern Steel & Wire of
> Sterling, Illinois, between October 1960 and May 1961, although two were
> used there for a time as stationary boilers.
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> The latest photo of an M-4-A is of #6319 at Sterling on 28 December 1963.
> The latest freight service shots I can find are dated 17 October 1958 and
> show #6315 at Centralia and Herris. There is an accompanying comment that
> the last two of the class were kept hauling coal to avoid conflict with
> mining companies and miners.
> Hol Wagner in Bulletin #21 confirms that the last M-4-A run was #6315 on
the
> 6 September 1959 Chicago-Galesburg fan trip previously mentioned.
>
> Back to the subject of the sand domes. The conversions to M-4-A took
place
> between November 1934 (#6327) and February 1940 (#6311 and 6319). Hol
> comments that "In rebuilding the plodding M-4's into higher speed power,
the
> locomotives' weight distribution was changed somewhat. To improve the
> situation to replace some of the weight that had been lost up front,
between
> 1938 and 1940 the rear sand domes of all 18 M-4-A's were relocated to a
> position between the steam dome and the forward sand dome". Based on the
> conversion dates, one would presume that the sand dome change was made on
7
> units post-conversion and the other 11 units as they were upgraded.
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> Rupert
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