Barry,
There is an excellent shot of one of the B-1a mountains in the last
black & white BRHS calendar issued three or four years ago. I think it
was the Nov. or Dec. photo.Sorry, I am out of town and not near my
files, so I can't give you the exact year, but my guess would be 2001.
Bill Barber
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 07:21 AM, BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
wrote:
> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:27:41 -0800
> From: jonathanharris@earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: 4-8-2 Mountain Class
>
> Barry --
>
> The BRHS has never done an a Bulletin on the B-1 or B-1a mountains.
> There
> are photos scattered in various books, but the quickest and cheapest
> way to
> see lots of photos of these engines in action is to check out the
> Denver
> Public Library's Western History Collection (thousands of photos
> digitalized and downloadable for free). Otto Perry's entire collection
> (15,000 prints) is there, including many hundreds of CB&Q photos from
> the
> around World War I through the the early 1960s. Search by: "Chicago
> Burlington & Quincy AND engine type 4-8-2" -- you'll pull up about
> good 30
> photos of the mountains.
>
> Enjoy.
> Jonathan
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