Charlie
A few extra details. Wyoming Pacific Improvement Co. was the company behind
the Nebraska & Western which built the Covington (South Sioux City) to O’Neill
line (plus two other related companies which were supposed to build to Salt
Lake City didn’t actually build any track) The actual contractor for the completed
section was E P Reynolds & Co.
Macon Construction Co. was a developer of railroads in Georgia, etc. in
1889-1894 (and maybe earlier) including the Macon & Birmingham and the
Macon & Atlantic roads. Just to muddy the waters, one of the
projected roads was the Macon & North-eastern to connect Covington (Georgia,
not Nebraska) ) to Macon. Looking at the management and boards of Wyoming
Pacific Improvement and Macon Construction doesn’t show any connection
between the companies.
There is a note in Railway Review for 8 November 1890 stating that
the Rhode Island Locomotive Works was “building a compound locomotive for
the Macon Construction Co. This engine is of the eight-wheeled typo, and is intended
for fast passenger service.”
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
From:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 01 January 2005 21:15
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [CBQ] K-9
Ten-Wheelers
According to the Connelly and
Rhode Island Lists the ex-GN K-9 Rhode Island 4-6-0s_were as follows:
CB&Q
943 GN 994
2264
Macon Construction
Company
131 18x24 62” Dec
1889 ret 10/12 to Wyoming Pacific
Improvement Co. 10 Pacific Short Line
CB&Q
944 GN 995
2265
Macon Construction
Company
132 18x24 62” Dec
1889 ret 10/13 to Wyoming Pacific
Improvement Co. 11 Pacific Short Line
CB&Q
945 GN 996
2328
Wyoming
Pacific Improvement Co. 12
18x24 55” Apr
1890 ret
11/13
CB&Q
946 GN 997
2440
Wyoming
Pacific Improvement Co. 15
18x24 54” Aug
1890
disposition unknown
I wish Joe were
still with us to weigh in on this discussion….he may have provided more
up-to-date information to Connelly. The Rhode Island lists do not
indicate the engines going to the GN or the CB&Q, but all seem to be
contractors locomotives and if anyone has more detailed info on the building of
the O’Neil branch it may help clarify if the info is likely to be
correct.
Charlie Vlk