Bill,
What is also interesting is that many of those tenders were
never used for anything. By the mid sixties they were being
sent up to Sterling in pairs. A little bit of wasted labor
there but I can see why they would save something that might
be useful. Just saved a few too many.
Most of the tenders I saw in M of W service were older, from
engines that had been scrapped in the reclamation plant days.
Were any of the 4-6-4 or 4-8-4 tenders ever used?
Russ
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From: clipperw@EarthLink.net
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Sent: Wednesday, 23 November, 2005 10:01
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2591
Bob,
In the later years, (after Q closed the reclamation plant at Eola),
most, if not all, of the Lincoln assigned locomotives were scrapped at
Sterling, IL. I have a sad slide, taken in Illinois, of 5626 and 5627
coupled back to back without tenders and stripped of appliances
(headlights, bells, etc.) enroute to Sterling. There is also a similar
photo in the BRHS Bulletin on the hudsons of 4002 and 4003 coupled cab
to cab (no tenders and with the backs of the cab roofs cut off) headed
to Sterling. In addition, I have a slide of the 5620 with tender, but
otherwise stripped, at Galesburg enroute to Sterling. I don't know for
sure, but I would suspect that all of the remaining Lincoln assigned
locomotives went this same way in the mid '50s to the early '60s.
Bill Barber
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