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Yes, indeed. Blow up a small rectangle with the gon in it and those beets sure do look black and lumpy. Ironically on sugar plantations in the tropics, many of the steam engines burned bagasse, which is the sugar cane refuse from which most of the juice has been extracted. Can't attest to the BTU's such fuel produces, but it works. I suppose it might with beets, too. ---In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <richtownsend@...> wrote : There was a Yale & Reagan Construction company that owned some locomotives, and that would be consistent with the string of dump cars in the photo. And the gondola sure looks like it's loaded with coal, not sugar beets. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, Oregon -----Original Message----- From: harleyhorse74@... [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, Feb 12, 2015 4:43 pm Subject: [CBQ] Re: Seasonal Use Of Gondolas On The Q [1 Attachment] Here is a photo I have showing CB&Q gondola 80195 with a load of sugar beets taken in Scottsbluff, NE. The caption reads CB&Q RR #1333, however if you look at the engine it does not show that number. It looks like it says Y&R on the engine and Yale & ? on the tender. Anyone have any thoughts on history of this engine? The handcar is lettered CB&Q. You can see three men adding water to the tender. __._,_.___ Posted by: jonathanharris@earthlink.net __,_._,___ |