I thought about that, too, Hol, but maybe they were on loan to another railroad
since, in service, they would be in between air dump cars.
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 7:22 AM, Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com> wrote:
John:
I was not talking about the photo of four ditchers on flatcars; that is indeed
a 1930s photo. I was referring to the photos used in the Erie ditcher ads,
which were taken by Erie (the Ball Engine Co.) soon after the 260 was delivered
and used for years by that company for advertising and publicity. The Q itself
made copies of these photos and the PR department used them over the years.
Hol
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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: cbqrr47@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:23:41 -0700
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Q ditcher
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
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Maureen
Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2014 8:09 a.m.
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Subject: RE: [CBQ] Q ditcher [2 Attachments]
Ken
Thanks for this link. This photo was used by Erie Steam Shovel Co. to
advertise their ditchers in Railway Maintenance Engineer magazines at least
between 1919 and 1922. This one was used in 1920 (volume 16, April advert
Page 43) but your photo is very, very much better.
Another photo showing 260 loading MWD-4 dump car 202660 is in the December
1922 volume 18 advert section page 25. This notes that the Burlington had
six of these Erie ditchers, and a photo of at least four of them
(presumably) being delivered on CB&Q flat cars is on the Library of Congress
site.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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Martin
Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2014 5:00 a.m.
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Subject: [CBQ] Q ditcher
For those interested in M/W I just found a nice picture of a Q ditcher at
work
http://www.earthmoversmagazine.co.uk/?p=5008
Ken Martin
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