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From: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:41:48 -0600
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From: holpennywagner@msn.com
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Subject: RE: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:39:31 -0600




OK, here's the rest:
 
By late 1942 the D&RGW was being overwhelmed by heavy wartime traffic, much of 
it flowing over the Moffat Road and Dotsero Cutoff, but a substantial amount 
also taking the Royal Gorge route west from Pueblo.  The Rio Grande borrowed 
whatever power it could -- even a single O-1-A Mike from the Q.  But big power 
was needed and in the winter of 1942-43 and again the following winter the 
Grande managed to borrow several big 2-8-8-4 Yellowstones from the Duluth, 
Missabe & Iron Range, which had no need for them during the winter when Great 
Lakes ore traffic was at a standstill.  The locomotives were sent west from 
Chicago via the Q in service, and Joe Schick, who lived at Keenesburg, Colo., 
some 40 miles northeast of Denver on the mainline, caught up with a pair of 
them double-headed on a westbound freight, on a chilly December 12, 1943.  The 
two attached views are the magnificent result.
 
After one of the DM&IR engines ran away and derailed with an eastbound train 
coming down out of the mountains on the Moffat at Fireclay on February 7, 1943, 
the leased engines were restricted to service between Denver and Pueblo.  Otto 
Perry photos of the derailed DM&IR 224 and sister 225 in service on the Joint 
Line can be found at:
 
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/51309/rec/1
 
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/67330/rec/1
 
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/67331/rec/1
 
Enjoy!
 
Hol 
 
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Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 14:09:37 -0400
Subject: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora




June 8, 2014 
 
Aurora had an unexpected visitor when the NP sent Yellowstone Class 
Z-5 No. 5008 to participate in the Chicago Railroad Fair of 1948. 
 
Here is a link to the Chicago Railroad Fair:    
http://www.railarchive.net/rrfair/index.html. 

 
There is a lot more on the Web if you Google search Chicago Railroad 
Fair.
 
The Q and NP routed the huge 2-8-8-4 type south from the Twin 
Cities over the LaCrosse Division to Savanna and into Chicago. The inserted 
image shows inbound 5008 posing in front of the Aurora Tower.
 

 
I'd like to hear opinions if the Yellowstone was routed from 
Savanna over the C&I direct to Aurora, or IF due to clearances and/or weight 
restrictions on bridges was routed instead Around The Horn via 
either Galesburg or Mendota?
 
Also, considering that the NP would've sent a RFE with the Yellowstone to 
instruct Q engine crews on its operation and servicing, how would the Q engine 
crews have been paid? On engine weight? 
 
I do not have a retirement date for 5008, but would suspect it had 
been replaced by diesels and scrapped in the mid-to-late 1950s. No NP 
Yellowstones were preserved. Best Regards - Louis
 
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL                                                                    
                  

Attachment: DM&IR 235-236 on CB&Q near Keenesburg, Colo., enroute to D&RGW, 12-12-1943, Joe Schick photo #2, Hol Wagner coll..jpg
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