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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: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:00:04 -0000
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Thanks for the replies thus far.  I am still hoping that someone will have 
information on the wreck the #410 was involved in.  


--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "mardechris" <mardechris@...> wrote:
>
> 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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