Re: [CBQ] Derrick 204376

["qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Watch for details on the wrecker dinning car meals in an upcoming BRHS Zephyr.

Leo Phillipp

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On Dec 8, 2014, at 3:50 PM, "'Alan Seeger' alseeger@mchsi.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

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The guy that was the last cook on The Big Hook still goes out for lunch. I see him and his Mrs. every Monday.

 

Us signal grunts would mooch a meal from the wrecker crews while working derailments.  Damn good eating and

we were simply starved!

 

 

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From: Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]

To: CB&Q Group

Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 3:02 PM

Subject: RE: [CBQ] Derrick 204376

 

Looking more closely, the assignment stenciling on 204375 is in 3 lines and reads:
 
250 TON
GALESUBRG
DERRICK
 
This was done because at various times there was more than one derrick assigned to both Galesburg and Lincoln.
 
Hol 
 

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To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 11:33:10 -0700
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Derrick 204376 [2 Attachments]

 

Actually, the lettering reads:
 
DANGER
KEEP OUTSIDE THE RADIUS
OF THIS MACHINE
WHEN IN OPERATION.
 
Attached are scans of all or part of images that appeared in BB No. 18 on wreckers, and they show the lettering pretty well.  The radius of the two hooks was also stenciled on the boom, though the 204375-204376 both only show the 41 ft. 0 in. radius of the main hook not the boom tip hook.  Stenciled weight is 376,000 pounds, and by the 1960s the derricks were stenciled with their assignment, the 204376 having GALESBURG DERRICK at the upper rear of the side sill, the word GALESBURG hidden in the shadow.  I'll probably send one of the scans in a second message, since Yahoo limits attachments to 10 MB.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:21:37 +0100
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Derrick 204376

 

FWIIW: Years ago End Cab Models sold the Athearn 250t crane in exactly this paintscheme, inclusive the warning:

                            DANGER 

                keep outside the radius

                 of this machine when

                     it is in operation

(all in capitals). This confirms Scott’s interpretation  as we may assume that ECM had access to the original or solid

documentation.

Ben de Vries, the Netherlands

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