RE: [CBQ] Can Anyone ID This Image

["Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Louis:
 
This one came as a surprise to me , too, when I saw it on eBay.  I was aware of the 1525 similarly dolled up for use as the Omaha depot switcher, but this one was a shocker.  Checking assignment sheets, it was always assigned to the St. Joe Division and thus would have been either the St. Joe or Kansas City depot switcher.  And considering the generally lower class of the passenger trains that passed through St. Joe, my money would be on Kansas City.  Such switchers were used where there was direct competition in the same facility (or, as in the case of Omaha, directly adjacent and plainly visible).  UP, of course, had a similarly outfitted switcher at Omaha.  And there was, for a time, a dolled up G-10 assigned to depot duties at Denver, while UP also had a fancy 0-6-0 here.
 
Hol
 

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To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 21:38:54 -0500
Subject: [CBQ] Can Anyone ID This Image [1 Attachment]

 

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

March 6, 2015

 

Group - In the attached image, note how Class G-3 No. 1506 has been all "dolled-up" with polished cylinder head covers, polished rods, polished or painted trim and gloss paint job. Could this have been for use as a passenger station switch engine? What a beautiful locomotive! Can anyone identify the large building in the background or brick roundhouse so the location can be known. This image is undated, but the Corbin book records Havelock-built No. 1506 as having been retired in October 1934. Best Regards - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

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

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