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[CBQ] Re: FW&D #410 (T&P #400)

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Subject: [CBQ] Re: FW&D #410 (T&P #400)
From: "mardechris" <mardechris@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:17:05 -0000
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I am looking for info on #410, which is now located in Marshall, Texas.  I 
believe the Lubbock loco you are referring to is numbered 401 and it is a 
replacement  for the original FW&D #401 which was sold for scrap in May of 1955.

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, dfhollis@... 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@...> 
> To: 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) 
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> 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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