Re: [CBQ] Q ditcher

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

I think we're talking about two different pictures. When I said they might be 
on loan, I was referring to the Kanas WPA picture where the ditcher cars were 
all together. You are talking about the Ball Engine ad.



On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 5:27 PM, Jan Kohl <j.kohl@wildblue.net> wrote:
  
  
Could have been loaned/rented to another railroad for some work...

Cheers!

Jan Kohl
castlegraphics.com


On 3/12/2014 8:14 AM, Hol Wagner wrote:
 
  
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>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.
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>Hol
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>________________________________
>To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>From: gamlenz@ihug.co.nz
>Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:24:15 +1300
>Subject: RE: [CBQ] Q ditcher
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>John
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>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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>From:CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John D. 
>Mitchell, Jr.
>Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2014 4:24 p.m.
>To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [CBQ] Q ditcher  
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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.  
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>On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:08 PM, Rupert & Maureen mailto:gamlenz@ihug.co.nz 
>wrote:  
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>Going back through my e-mails, I see that Ken Martin should be credited with
>finding one of the
                                                    adverts I referred
                                                    to. 
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>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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