[CBQ] re: DM&IR SD9s with steam generators

[ANDREW KOETZ <andrewkoetz@gmail.com>]

129 and 130, now down on the Birmingham Southern.

> You are correct about the covers which were not part of the EMD
application, but rather a RR added modification. I don't know about
incidences on the Q, but the Duluth Missabe & Iron Range had two SD-9s
equipped with steam generators that were used to pulled special passenger
trains such as Board of Directors trains. Such trips occurred infrequently.
Every time the shop would set up the units for passenger service, they would
find the exhaust stack full of sand. It wasn't easy getting the sand out
once it was in the steam generator. The Q covers may have been set up on
legs so that the exhaust could vent around the side of the covers. A close
up photo might determine whether they were fixed in place or had to be
removed for steam generator use.
>
> Bill Barber
> Gravois Mills, MO


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