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Hol,
I thought someone else might mention it, but just for the record, O-1 5020 later became the only F3 class 0-8-0. It was finally c=scrapped in October, 1939. Attached is a photo of it as an 0-8-0. Weird and ungainly looking machine.
Bill Barber Gravois Mills, MO
 Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:48 am (PDT) . Posted by: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
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