RE: [CBQ] Q ditcher

[Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

The location of this view is troublesome, as it is identified as being in 
Cherokee County, Kan., in May 1936.  But Cherokee is the southeasternmost 
county in Kansas and the Q did not have trackage anywhere near there.  
Presumably the photographer mislabeled the view.
 
Hol
 
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:24:15 +1300
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Q ditcher














 

 



  


    
      
      
      







John



Yes I agree.  Seeing three and a half of the six ditchers in the one photo
suggested that all six might be present (or why else would they have at least
four together).  The flat cars with consecutive numbers had rails along
them in a similar manner to the advert photos suggesting that they were the
ones allocated to each of the ditchers and, with so many together, I thought the
photo might have been taken at the time the Burlington bought them.  My
copy of the photo came from the original LOC collection and doesn’t have
the subscription shown in the Shorpy copy, so I was unaware of the date.  None
of the photos used in the advert, calendar or UK website show the number of the
flat car bearing 260 but presumably it was in the company service numbering
series.



Rupert Gamlen

Auckland NZ


 









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Rupert





I
don't believe the photo is a delivery photo. This is for three reasons. First
the picture is a WPA photograph, made during the Depression years in the 30's
many years after they were delivered. Second, as delivered, they were painted
white and in the picture they are black and lastly, they are on flat cars in
the company service number series.





 







On
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:08 PM, Rupert & Maureen
<gamlenz@ihug.co.nz> wrote:









 










Going back through my
e-mails, I see that Ken Martin should be credited with

finding one of the adverts I referred to. 



There is a similar photo to the second advert showing the dump car in the

April 2011 calendar from Mile Post 206 Publishing except that, once again,

it is a much better picture than the magazine one. And the way car in the

photo is apparently 14252.



Rupert Gamlen

Auckland NZ