In 1991 when I had my bachelor party @ Galesburg RR Days I talked to a veteran
Q engineer. We were in the cab of 3006 and I asked him about the O-4s. He said
the crews called them "snuff boxes" because they were such filthy burning
engines. Aparently the mother road agreed and banished them to C&S / FW&D
Netherland.
Sincerely,
Rob Manley
Midwest Mod-U-Trak
"When building kits is a lost art,
Only lost artists will be building kits !!"
----- Original Message -----
From: bigbearoak
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:33 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q USRA Mikados
Jerry -
All 15 were delivered as coal burners but remained that way
barely a decade - if that long. Their initial assignments were on
the Lines East (Cresco Div., IIRC???). By the early 1930s,
though, all had been reassigned to the western divisions
(Casper, Alliance); a few also were
leased to the subsidiary FW&D. Oil was generally abundant and
a cheaper fuel than coal throughout those territories.
- Jonathan
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-- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "revjerwayne" <jgeisert@...>
wrote:
>
> In 1919 the Burlington obtained 15 USRA "Heavy Mikados"
(2-8-2 and
> placed them in class O-4 road numbers 5500-5514. A
photograph of 5509
> shows it was an oil burner. Were all 15 of the O-4s oil
burners?
>
> Thanks for any info you can give.
>
> Jerry Geisert
>
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