Don't forget the old MOP, almost all of their freight
engines had doghouses.
John D. Mitchell, Jr.
--- clipperw@EarthLink.net wrote:
> John,
>
> To the best of my knowledge, Q and many other RRs,
> never applied
> doghouses to their locomotive tenders. In most
> cases, the headend
> brakeman was accommodated in the cab and, certainly,
> the square cabs on
> the earlier 2-10-4s appear to have had enough room.
> Those with the
> sloped front may have been a little tighter, When
> the hudsons were used
> in freight service in later years, a small alcove
> was added to the back
> wall of the cab on the fireman's side to accommodate
> an additional jump
> seat. I think the the law required a seat, it did
> not specify how large
> that had to be! Seat boxes on most steam locomotives
> were usually
> pretty utilitarian compared to most modern diesels.
> On the O-1a mikes,
> I am sure that the seats for both the fireman and
> head brakeman were
> quite small because of the narrow space. I once rode
> in the cab of O-5
> #5626 and it had a full seat for both the fireman
> and the head
> brakeman, but that was a large cab.
>
> Of the major RRs in steam days, the Pennsy and the
> D&RGW were the
> primary users of dog houses. Most others found a way
> to accommodate the
> head brakeman in the cab.
>
> Bill Barber
>
> On Wednesday, February 16, 2005, at 08:06 AM,
> CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:52:28 +0000
> > From: railbass@comcast.net
> > Subject: Tender Doghouses
> >
> > I was once again admiring my new M-4a 2-10-4 that
> Bob Campbell sold me
> > when something struck me. It has no tender
> doghouse for the headend
> > brakeman. I model both CB&Q and D&RGW in HO.
> Almost all of the
> > D&RGW locos, including the later narrow gauge
> 2-8-2s, had tender
> > doghouses. I looked through Corbin and found no
> CB&Q engines with a
> > tender doghouse.
> >
> > My understanding is that an agreement between the
> railroads and the
> > unions in the early 20th century called for a seat
> protected from the
> > elements for the headend brakeman on all freight
> and dual service
> > locomotives. This called for either a seat in
> the cab or a tender
> > doghouse. Now the M-4a, O-5, and other larger
> locos obviously had
> > room in their large cabs for an additional seat
> for the brakeman, but
> > numerous locos such as the O-1a's had small cabs
> which would not have
> > had much room for additional crew.
> >
> > Did the Q have any steam locos with tender
> doghouses? If not, how
> > did they accommodate extra crew in the cab,
> especially on smaller
> > locos? This could have created some unpleasant
> circumstances,
> > especially across Iowa and Nebraska in winter,
> although a tender
> > doghouse could not have been well heated. How
> did the Q handle this
> > dilemma?
> > - John Manion
> > Denver, CO
>
>
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