Re: [CBQ] Derailment Photo

["LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

March 30, 2015

 

Pete - Can you share the image(s) and details of the engine that blew-up on Provo Hill?  Or, Hol, do you have any of the Al Holck copies? Best Regards - Louis

 

In a message dated 3/30/2015 10:49:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:

 Many years ago... on one of my very young trips out to Sheridan WY with my grandfather.circa 1942 I remember talk of "THE 2935" being 

involved in some kind of major "mishap"....Any of you guys have any record or photos or memories of hearing of such affair which included that engine.

This is strictly a memory "tickle" by reference to the 2937 in the Fort Madison thing.

Sometimes I'm surprised that some of my old memories turn out to be accurate...Specifically one of my GF talking of an engine which "blew up on Provo Hill"...this was backed up quite a few years ago with a piece in the Lincoln paper  in t he  60-70 years ago column about funeral service held in 1913 for an engine crew involved in what turned out to be that affair.  I have two post card pictures of the engine after it was towed to Edgemont with my GF's notes on the back as to what it was.  

Al Holck made copies of these photos, but I don't recall whether they appeared in one of his books.

Pete

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From: Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Mar 30, 2015 10:21 am
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Derailment Photo

 

Louis:
 
You're right, it is indeed the 2937.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:01:38 -0400
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Derailment Photo

 

March 30, 2015

Hol - I enlarged the image and it looks to me the road number on the side of the cab is 2937. If accurate, it was a Class S-2-A 4-6-2 type. According to the Corbin book, the locomotive was built by Baldwin as a Class S-2 locomotive in 1910, converted to Class S-2-A in 1924 and sold for scrap in May 1951. Wonder if the round house gang found any cat fish in the firebox.... Best Regards - Louis

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL 

In a message dated 3/30/2015 9:14:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:

[Attachment(s) from Hol Wagner included below]

I went looking in the Barriger collection and found the image of the wrecked Pacific set out at Fort Madison -- on the first page of Santa Fe photos.
 
Hol
 

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To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:02:16 -0600
Subject: [CBQ] Derailment Photo [1 Attachment]

 

[Attachment(s) from Hol Wagner included below]

The attached image is being used  on eBay to illustrate a large group of press photos of railroad derailments and collisions now being offered for sale, with a starting bid of $150.  I immediately recognized it as a Q shot and began wondering where and when it might have been taken.  Finally I inquired of the seller as to what information might be on the back of the print and got this reply:
 
The image caption reads:  "Fort Madison, Iowa. -- The wreckage of a locomotive and tender of a Burlington train which a 300-foot landslide rolled into the Mississippi River near here.  The engineer and fireman, who were carried with the engine, swam out, unhurt.  9-18-35.
 
I recall an image from the J.W. Barriger III collection that might possibly be the same locomotive sitting in Fort Madison after being hauled out of the river, but it was misfiled under Santa Fe and I don't have a copy of it.
 
Hol 

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