Thanks Hol!
I thought it looked flush but wanted to make sure. Your guess was right on - I
am modeling #1553 as it was in the 1930's in the Black Hills. I am modeling the
CB&Q branchline from Edgemont to Deadwood.
I found a photo of #1553 in Deadwood in 1935 which shows the Engineers side. It
was by Otto Perry in the online Denver Library (which is a great resource!). Of
course the only photos of the Firemans side I have found are from the 1950's
(Corbin's Steam locos of the Burlington Route) and it looks like some things
were changed by then like a different headlight, and I suspect two stage
airpump instead of the original single airpump.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@...> wrote:
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> Bruce:
>
> Obviously, you're talking about the later G-3s with low rectangular tenders,
> not the early ones with slopeback tenders, and since you're modeling an
> oil-burner, it must be the 1510 or more likely the 1553, the last G-3 on the
> railroad. The 1553 was converted to oil for use on the Casper Division, the
> moved to the Alliance Division and spent a good deal of time up in the Black
> Hills. Next it went to the Sterling Division and worked at Sterling, Colo.,
> in the early 1950s before finally being transferred to the Lincoln Division
> for a final year or two. So it worked four of the railroad's six divisions
> employing oil-burners (missing only McCook and Sheridan).
>
> But that's not what you asked about. There is no lip around the edge of the
> rear tender deck where it meets the sides and rear end; the joint is flush
> and with a tight rivet line on both surfaces. If you're in HO, you could
> save yourself some time and effort, but probably spend a good bit, if you can
> find one of the low tenders from the Oriental G-8 model (not the converted
> R-2 tender) imported years ago, as it is the same tender.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Hol Wagner
>
>
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>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> From: brucec12@...
> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 15:35:56 +0000
> Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Steam Loco Tenders
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> I am scratch building a CB&Q G-3 0-6-0 (which was converted to oil). I am
> trying to determine if the water tanks rear deck was flush with the sides or
> if the sides extended up past the top deck (as I think was typical of most
> railroads). The question came up as the top horizontal rivet line is very
> close to the top of the side (and closer to the edge than I see on other
> railroads) which would indicate that the top deck had a flange bent down to
> rivet(and making it ~flush with the side). Unfortunately, I can not find any
> clear pictures of the top of CB&Q tenders, most are from track level and the
> 3/4 front of the loco!
>
> Hope this is clear and thanks for any help,
>
> Bruce Collins
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