RE: [CBQ] O-5-A Extra Order Builder's Plate

["Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>]

Louis

Sorry but I don’t have that sort of research material.  I merely looked at the builder’s numbers on the BRHS spreadsheet to identify when 6675 might have been built.

 

However, assuming that “extra” means a boiler without the rest of the engine, what about the O-5-A’s 5611-5620 which were built between June and October 1937 at West Burlington with Baldwin boilers?

What happened to the Baldwin records?

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:14 p.m.
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] O-5-A Extra Order Builder's Plate

 

Rupert - Try researching:

 

Extra Order 6675

 

and see what you can find out. Much appreciate you taking the time to do this.

 

If it's any help, the roster in the back of the Corbin/Kerka book on page 285 shows what I interpret as Extra Order 5356-35 for Class S-4 No. 3012 whose boiler was fabricated by Baldwin in 1935.

 

Do you or anyone else on this List know why the Q opted for a Baldwin boiler for the 3012 after having constructed the others themselves at West Burlington for preceding S-4 locomotives? 

 

The Q must've been happy with quality and price of the out-sourced boiler as they went back two years later in 1937 to Baldwin for the series of O-5-A boilers.

 

Perhaps, the S-4 boiler was a "try out" for Baldwin since the O-5-A design work was well under way by that time. Evidently, Baldwin could build the boilers faster and for less money than the Q could.

 

Always enjoyable to speculate at this late date.

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

 

In a message dated 1/29/2014 4:41:38 P.M. Central Standard Time, gamlenz@ihug.co.nz writes:

Louis

6675 isn’t a regular “builder’s number” unless Baldwin started the numbering again. 6675 would have been allocated in about 1883!

 

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2014 7:52 a.m.
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January 29, 2014

 

Hol Wagner, reference the West Burlington Shops image of the 5626, recently commented:

 

The above plate was removed from an O-5-A in the Galesburg Dead Line for my father who wanted one for his collection. I do not recall what locomotive it was removed from. Perhaps, someone on this List can identify the 4-8-4 from the plate's construction number.

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL  

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