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March 26, 2015
Mike and Ken - The FW&D 550 series Pacifics could also be found
powering freight trains near the end of their long service careers. The attached
image shows No. 556 with a freight at Irving, TX, in 1951. Unfortunately, I do
not have any broadside images of the engineer's and fireman's sides to use for
kitbashing or modeling purposes. Perhaps, another Group member does. I do not
have my copy of Hol's "Colorado Road" book handy, but, according to the
Corbin book, No. 556 and its sister No. 557 were both constructed by Baldwin in
1922 to Q Class S-3 specifications and were the last two Pacific types acquired
by the Colorado Road. Also, whereas both Nos. 556 and 557 were equipped with
Elesco feed water heaters giving them the heavy "beetle brow" look, I can't
recall seeing an image of a Q Class S-3 equipped with anything but a Worthington
feed water heater, although the Corbin book indicates some did have Elescos. I'm
not a modeler, but agree with you both that the Q Class S-3 Pacific type would
be a good subject for some company to produce as a scale model. They were a fine
looking and, by all accounts, a well designed steam passenger
locomotive up until dieselization forever silenced their whistles and exhausts.
Best Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 3/26/2015 12:44:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
Thank
you Ken. I remember seeing those in/around Dallas in the 40s and 50s I think.
The smoke box "face" is unforgettable for a small boy who loved trains and
usually saw them up close waiting to the T&P Eagle bringing my grandmother
back from Jefferson. Her father had been the T&P station agent in Marshall
until he died in 1920.
I could do with a "close to" model, but if it
didn't have that characteristic smoke box front it just wouldn't
work.
Mike Thomasson
Austin
---- "Kenneth Martin
kmartin537@surewest.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
According to Hol's "Colorado Road" FW&D 551-555 were built to the Q S-3
design. These have not been done. The only Q pacific modeled was a LMB
S-2.
>
> According to the book before the S-3 copies were
authorized the USRA authorized five USRA light pacifics. That was
rescinded and the S-3 copies were authorized. So I suppose you could use a
USRA light pacific as a what if.
>
> Ken Martin
>
>
>
> On Mar 23, 2015, at 3:01 PM, mthomasson@austin.rr.com [CBQ]
wrote:
>
> > Was this class of locomotives ever offered for
sale in HO, brass or otherwise?
> >
> >
> > Mike
Thomasson
> > Austin, Texas
>
> > ----
"LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>> March 23, 2015
> >>
> >> Group - To give
those members who are not all that familiar with Q subsid
>
>> iary FW&D and its Texas Zephyr, I've attached an image of a 550
series FW&D
> >> 4-6-2 type powering the train at Fort
Worth, TX, in 1953.
> >>
> >> Louis Zadnichek
II
> >> Fairhope, AL
> >
>
>
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