Re: [CBQ] Parkman, WY [1 Attachment]

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

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June 29, 2015

 

All - The attached image of a Class B-1 4-8-2 type helper double heading with a Class M-2 2-10-2 type on Parkman Hill, WY, in March 1953 is off the Internet and I believe a Richard Steinheimer photograph. This date was close to dieselization of the Sheridan to Hardin route. Sixteen Class B-1 locomotives were all sold for scrap during 1953. Bumped from Lines West passenger service by new diesels, the unknown Class B-1 locomotive in this image was probably working out its flue time in helper service prior to being retired. With their 74-inch drivers, the "slippery" 7000s were designed for high speed heavy passenger trains and made a poor choice for a helper, but the ever frugal Q was getting their last dollar's worth of use out this locomotive. The unknown Class M-2 locomotive still in road freight service was also living on borrowed time by this late date. I bet their sharp unsynchronized exhausts could be heard for miles on that cold and snowy early Spring day. Best Regards - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL        

 

In a message dated 6/29/2015 11:01:34 A.M. Central Daylight Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:

Thanks for the info!

 

Bob

 

In a message dated 6/29/2015 9:51:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:

 

Between Sheridan, WY and Hardin MT there were wyes at Parkman (MP724), Wyola (MP 736), Lodge Grass (MP 754), and "Area Wye" (MP 782) just east of the Big Horn River at Hardin. The Area Wye at Hardin was torn out when I-90 was finished thru there and the state replaced it by adding a new east leg at the Hardin North Line "junction"  in Hardin about 1.5 miles west of the old wye. All were for steam helpers that went various distances down the Little Big Horn River to get on eastbound trains and for turning the power on Fall sugar beet runs.

East of Sheridan to Gillette there were wyes at least at Ulm, Arvada, Sparta, and Gillette.

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