Re: [CBQ] Wagon Wheel Antenna

[John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>]

Hol -

Don't spend time tracking down an AFE for this.   I will just model the #153 with the antenna and other details and say that it is early 1950s, which it will be.   Thanks.

- John Manion

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:52 PM, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com> wrote:

 

John:
 
I'm guilty of not having replied to this query because I don't have a definite answer.  But I know more now than I did when you initially asked, thanks to the 1952 Q files I'm going through at the museum.  In monthly updates to the Q locomotive assignment sheets, there are frequent notations that that locomotive or that -- including a great many diesel switchers -- should now be shown as being radio equipped.  So the radio installation program on the railroad was in full sway during 1952, and thus it would be around that time the radio and antenna were added to C&S 153.  Best I can do until I can track down the AFE for installation out in the wooden Q  boxcar at the museum.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: railbass@comcast.net
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:28:33 -0700
Subject: [CBQ] Wagon Wheel Antenna

 

One question I asked on modeling C&S NW2 #153 hasn't been answered yet.   I have the 1952 Otto Perry photo of #153, but it does not have the wagon wheel antenna on it.   Later photos from Holck and Fulcomer's color pictorial books show the 150s from 1958 to 1972 with the wagon wheel antenna.   When were the wagon wheel antennas mounted on Q switchers, especially C&S switchers such as #153?

- John Manion

  Denver, CO

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