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An odd coincidence in that Jim Ehernberger just asked me about this incident a couple of days ago. Attached is an image of the running gear of O-1 5020 taken in the Edgemont, S.D., yards after they were towed there following the boiler explosion as the engine was pulling a train up Provo Hill, 10 miles south of Edgemont, on Feb. 15, 1913. I also have a photo of the remains of the boiler, on the ground at the explosion site, but I can't locate it right now. It appears on page 95 of the new Alliance Division book published by Arcadia Publishing ( Images of Rail: The Burlington Railroad Alliance Division, by Richard C. Kistler, Michael M. Bartels and James J. Reisdorff). This is actually a revision of Alliance and Everywhere West, the earlier book by Joe Hardy and Richard Kistler that was published by Jim Reisdorff's South Platte Press. As the caption in the book notes, "A Burlington freight engine, 2-8-2 No. 5020, exploded near Provo, South Dakota, at 12:05 a.m. on February 15, 1913, killing the engineer, fireman and head brakeman. The train did not derail, but the force of the explosion sent the boiler flying entirely beyond the right-of-way. This locomotive was returned to service." Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:09:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [CBQ] Derailment Photo
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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Louis: You're right, it is indeed the 2937.
Hol
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
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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
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Mon, 30
Mar 2015 08:02:16 -0600 Subject: [CBQ] Derailment Photo [1 Attachment]
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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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