I posted the following inquiry on the Baldwin Locomotive Works list and am posting it here as well in case there are any CB&Q steam locomotive scholar researchers lurking.
I have all of Joe Douda’s CB&Q locomotive research and every published roster that I am aware of. The Newberry had an Aurora Testing Lab logbook that mentions the Dynanometer Car testing with one of the engines in the Aurora area which hints they were the railroad equivalent of “hanger queens”. I have been going through downloaded railroad journals and have yet to find anything on them.
Charlie Vlk
Does anyone know where there might be drawings or photos of these two CB&Q Consolidations, Nos. 397 and 398, built by Baldwin 8/81? They were fitted with Wooten fireboxes with the cab perched above rather than on the boiler and were intended to burn Illinois slack coal rather than Anthracite. They were not successful and were scrapped sometime prior to the 1898 and 1904 renumberings and thus were not rebuilt into 0-6-0s like all the conventional Baldwin 2-8-0s Nos. 389-396 built on the same order.
I checked the Broadbelt photo lists and they are not on them.
Charlie Vlk
