Re: [CBQ] MOW Equipment

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

All it says in the ad is, that it is made by the Orton & Steinbrenner Co. I have a dvd with a power point presentation, that I gave at Rock Island, last fall. I can make copies for anyone who wants them for $10 each, with all proceeds going to the BRHS archives fund. In the mean time, as I get time, I'll try and post a few photos here. BTW, the proper Q term is "company service equipment", not "MOW". I'm not nit picking, but I thought you would like to know. It wasn't just the MOW forces that used non-revenue equipment, but the mechanical, stores, traffic, law and even the transportation departments used them as well.

Also, I don't believe the Q dieselized any of their piledrivers. All that I know about were still steam at merger time. The reason for this is all had steam hammers. Diesel hammers were used only on the off track cranes. 
 

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From: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] MOW Equipment

 

February 17, 2015

 

John - Thanks for commenting on Q 204614. Can you give us any specifications? Did it last long enough to be dieselized? Can you please share with the Group any MOW images not planned for use in the upcoming BRHS calendar? Best Regards - Louis

 

In a message dated 2/17/2015 4:25:11 P.M. Central Standard Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:

I can tell you that 204614 is an Orton piledriver purchased in the teen's. I have picture of it from an old 1920 M of W Cyclopedia. It was the Galesburg piledriver for many years. I have a large collection of company service equipment photographs. Look for a BRHS calendar featuring them in the near future. 
 

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From: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:23 PM
Subject: [CBQ] MOW Equipment [1 Attachment]

 

[Attachment(s) from LZadnichek@aol.com included below]

February 17, 2015

 

Group - The Erie ditcher shown in Duncan's earlier post spurred me to check through my digital collection of Q maintenance of way (MOW) images. Since we've lately been enjoying a banquet of wonderful steam power images thanks to Hol, why not some of MOW equipment, too.

 

I'm attaching a classic MOW image dated August 14, 1931 of steam pile driver No. 204614 with Bridge & Building Gang No. 1 at work on a timber trestle near Galesburg, IL. Does anyone recognize the exact location? The official at center wearing a tie and straw hat is the probably the Division Engineer. 

 

I'm a little surprised that the pile driver's tender with water and coal supply is not coupled to it. The tender and camp cars must be on a nearby siding as the pile driver would've been self propelled. I'd enjoy seeing any other Q MOW equipment images that any other Group members would like to share.

 

We can include steam shovels, pile drivers, wrecking derricks, bridge cranes, spreaders, ditchers, hand pump or motor cars, camp cars, track laborers, weed sprayers, construction scenes, whatever kind of machinery or equipment that the Q and its subsidiaries used to construct and maintain their right-of-ways from the Civil War era forward to the BN merger. 

 

I'm sure that some of the MOW experts in this Group can better interpret my and other's old images than I can. Let's all learn and share what we can from images depicting the Q's MOW equipment and practices. Personally, I spent two college summers on a Q steel gang in the mid-1960s. Best Regards - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL       

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Posted by: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>

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