I stand corrected.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norm Metcalf" <n.metcalf@worldnet.att.net>
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:00:51 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [CBQ] FW&D #410 (T&P #400)
HOL WAGNER wrote:
> It was never leased to the T&P; that was FW&D 410.
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [CBQ] FW&D #410 (T&P #400)
>
> dfhollis@comcast.net <mailto: dfhollis@comcast.net > wrote:
> > The FW&D 410 stuffed and mounted in Lubbock is really the CB&Q
> O-1A #4994 that was leased when to the T&P when it was finished
> working on the C&S in Denver. There is some film of it in operation
> in "The Last Steamers of the Colorado & Southern" video. It was
> built in 1923 by Baldwin. Check the publication index on the BRHS
> website and you'll find other pictures of the engine.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "mardechris" < mardechris@yahoo.com
> <mailto: mardechris@yahoo.com >>
> > To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <mailto: CBQ@yahoogroups.com >
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:36:36 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada
> Central
> > Subject: [CBQ] FW&D #410 (T&P #400)
> >
> > i! My name is Marde and I am addicted to trains. I learn by
> listening and watching others who have much more knowledge about
> trains than I do. Thanks many wonderful internet sites and books,
> books and more books I am able to learn about the many things
> pertaining to trains and railroading in general and very seldom
> > have to ask questions.
> >
> > This kind of sounds like an introduction to TA, better known as
> 'Trains Anonymous'!
> >
> > I do have a request for information. I am hunting any
> information, pictures and/or diagrams I can find on FW&D #410. All
> of my research is given to the T & P Depot Museum in Marshall,
> Texas, where FW&D #410 now resides.
> >
> > Let me tell you a little bit of what I do know.
> >
> > T&P #400 started out with the FW&D as engine #410. She was one of
> ten 2-8-2 Mikados (#401 thru #410) built by Baldwin in 1915 for
> FW&D. She had her picture taken in Wichita Falls in 1932 by Otto
> Perry. She was sold to T&P (and renumbered/painted to T&P #400) in
> 1957 to be used in the flooded areas of the Red River. Trains
> magazine has a page dedicated to her from August 1957. FW&D #410
> (T&P #400) was placed in the Marshall city park in 1963 where she
> lived until 2008. Part of her life in the park was spent
> > enclosed in a building due to asbestos. In May of 2008 #400 was
> moved to the T&P depot where she will be restored to a static display.
> >
> > I found an article about railway preservation that said #400 was
> 'heavily rebuilt and modernized' in 1940. What exactly would have
> been done to her at during the rebuild? It also made mention of a
> breakage that was too costly to repair that attributed to being
> retired. Does anyone know what this breakage could have been? From
> what I understand, when the #400 was moved to the city park, she
> moved there under her own power.
> >
> > I have heard that she was wrecked in the 1940s, but I can not
> find any documentation or pictures on the wreck. When facing #410
> from the front, you can see the date "1946" on the frame under the
> smoke box. I assume this is from the wreck.
> >
> > In "The Colorado Road" there is a diagram of FW&D #401 thru #410.
> What are the chances of the drawings still existing for this
> particular group of locomotives?
> >
> > I would appreciate any information, stories, and hopefully
> pictures that you all would like to share. Did I mention pictures? I
> have located a few --the Otto Perry picture from 1932 is the one I
> can find of her under FW&D. Also, "The Colorado Road" by Hol Wagner,
> Jr. has a picture of her The Trains article has pictures as T&P. All
> other pictures I have found are after she was retired and put in the
> park.
> >
> > Thanks again for your help.
> >
> > Marde
> >
> > *new member of
> > Trains Anonymous
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