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From: "Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 15:48:57 +1200
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There’s an interesting photo on eBay of a Porter 45 ton centre cab with a Burlington Route herald on the side and numbered 7186. In October 1930, the CB&Q purchased one of these units which was variously numbered #111  / 9111 / 8902. The photographer is shown as Liljequist of Omaha.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/B-W-SMALL-LOCOMOTIVE-TRAIN-PHOTO-BURLINGTON-ROUTE-LOCOMOTIVE-MEN-/370788738410?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5654bb256a

 

Looking at the information on page 6 of Bulletin #6, this was an early photo (assuming it was 111 / 911) as the builder’s shield and Westinghouse circle are in the original location on the side of the cab, the exhausts are in the original locations, and the hood doors match the earliest photo.  Ken Martin has identified the number as being the Porter serial number.

 

My first impression was that this was an official handover photo as the unit is so clean, but Omaha is a long way from Pittsburgh - I am assuming, of course, that the photo was taken at Omaha.

Bulletin 6 notes that Porter built three very similar units as demonstrators, one diesel and two gasoline. Could this be from that period, which would account for the use of the serial number as opposed to a regular Burlington number?  There are also no road numbers in the side lens of the headlights, as there were later, and the bottom edge of the Burlington Route herald passes under the top of the Porter shield, as it does in the Bulletin photo.  That might suggest that, having trialled the demonstrator unit, the Burlington decided to keep it.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

 

 



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