Jonathan -
My source is Hol Wagner's The Colorado Road (1970), in which he describes the
delivery of FW&D 451-455, class E-4A2, from Baldwin in April 1919 as the last
coal burners, complete with Duplex stokers, purchased by the FW&D. All FW&D
engines built after 1919 were delivered as oil burners. When WWI oil rationing
ended, the USRA 2-8-2s were converted to oil in 1921. They were never equipped
with feedwater heaters or exhaust steam injectors and had headlights centered
on the smokebox front, unlike typical Q practice. #453 was destroyed in a
wreck in 1948, and the last two, #451 and #454, were sold for scrap in 1960.
These five locos, plus fifteen for the Q, were the only USRA 2-8-2s purchased
by Burlington roads. Q never bought any USRA copies, and continued their O-1A
series, a modification of the 60 O-1s built in 1910 and 1911 by Baldwin, with
148 being built by Baldwin between 1917 and 1923, according to Bernard Corbin's
Steam Locomotives of the Burlington Route. Slightly larger O-2 (100) and O-3
(60) engines were built in 1912-13 and 1915-19, but all of these were modified
in later years, and the O-1As were the predominant class of 2-8-2s. C&S bought
five 2-8-2s, similar to the O-1s except for 57" drivers, from Baldwin in 1911.
In 1915, the FW&D bought ten 2-8-2s, identical to Q O-1, and delivered by
Baldwin as oil-burners. In 1920, FW&D bought five O-3 copies #456-460, and in
1922 received five heavier O-3 copies, #461-465. The twenty USRA 2-8-2s were
in a decided minority on the Q system.
The Q O-4s were only modified by feedwater heaters and conversion to oil, and
most operated on the western divisions with a number being leased to the C&S
and FW&D. The C&S purchase in June 1957 was the last acquisition of steam on
the Q system. Unfortunately, none of the Q/FW&D/C&S USRA 2-8-2s were preserved.
- John Manion
Denver, CO
> John --
>
> What is your source on the 1921 date for the FW&D 2-8-2s' conversion to
> oil? (I'm guessing it's Wagner, which I don't own.) I'm not disputing the
> early date, just curious, since I've seen a lot of photos of smaller FW&D
> engines through the 1920s with what look like coal tenders to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
> >
> >
> >FW&D had five USRA 2-8-2s, 451-455, converted to burn oil in 1921, most of
> >which
> >operated through the late 1950s. It appears from Hol Wagner's Colorado Road
> >and
> >Steve Goen's FW&D Color Pictorial that they worked in local freight service
> >throughout Texas, and there is nothing to indicate any were in passenger or
> >excursion service.
> >
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