Charlie and Rubert
M-4A's 6315 & 6327 worked the first week of January
1959, out of Centralia to Herrin Junction. This was
their last "regular" revenue.
John
--- Charlie Vlk <cvlk@attbi.com> wrote:
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rupert and Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> 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).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Rupert
> >
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