Re: [CBQ] CB&Q engines leased to SP

["Noel georgecrawfordsr@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

I read somewhere (wish I could remember where..brain getting old) that when the Q leased these engines to SP they were in prime condition. When the SP returned them, they were pretty much scrap material.
Noel

On 2/16/2015 5:40 PM, Tim O'Connor timboconnor@comcast.net [CBQ] wrote:

 

Wow, that's fantastic! I'd never heard of these locos leased to the SP before
you guys mentioned it. Beautiful photo.

Tim O'Connor


At 2/16/2015 05:36 PM Monday, you wrote:

[ Attachment(s) from Hol Wagner included below]

I keep getting sidetracked as I gather images to illustrate Q power leased to its subsidiaries.  This time I ran into what, from a Burlington fan's perspective, must be the greatest photo that Gerald M. "Jerry" Best ever shot, and I've attached it here.  It depicts triple-headed Q steam on the Espee in southern California!  Two oil-burning R-4 Prairies  -- 1955 and 1907 -- lead oil-burning S-3 Pacific 2974 and the interminable string of freight cars that make up First 824 as it blasts its way out of the Los angles metroplex at Alhambra on Feb. 22, 1942.  The green flags hung ahead of the train indicator boards on the 1955 do indeed indicate that a second section follows.  And of course there's a blackout shield on the 1955's cuckoo clock headlight.  What a scene.
 
Hol
 


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CB&Q 1955-1907-2974 on SP 1-824, Alhambra, Calif., 2-22-1942, G.M. Best photo, R.H. Kindig coll..jpg

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Posted by: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>

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Posted by: Noel <georgecrawfordsr@comcast.net>

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