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Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines
From: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:55:19 -0400
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October 13, 2015
 
Hol - On the subject of left handed switching locomotives used in the Chicago Lumber District, were these 0-6-0's separately identified as such on Locomotive Assignment Sheets? Knowing that your collection of Sheets should cover that era, could you please look and see if any class of 0-6-0's have some kind of identifying mark that signifies them as left handed. If so, could you then list the locomotive numbers so Group members can check their photo collections to see if any show-up. May be one of us already has a photograph and doesn't realize its significance. Thanks and best regards - Louis     
 
In a message dated 10/13/2015 2:51:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:


Rupert,

What a wonderful find ! News to me. But it will become visually clear to all who see the postcard of the old Aurora yard in the soon to be issued BRHS BB 51 as to why this was needed.

Thanks,

Leo

On Oct 13, 2015, at 1:05 PM, 'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Left handed but for Aurora, from the 1886 Railroad Gazette -

There is now being constructed in the locomotive shops a “left-handed ” switch engine. This may seem a trifle strange to most people, yet such is the case. It is made after the style of the five new switch engines recently made here, but instead of the engineer sitting in his usual place on the right hand side of the cab, the situation will be reversed and he will occupy the left hand or fireman's side. The engine is for use in the upper end of the Aurora yard, where the tracks curve so that the signals are obliged to be given on the left-hand side of the engine. As it is now with an ordinary engine, the fireman is obliged to receive the switchman's signals and transmit them to the engineer, thus making delay and liability to accident. With the new engine the engineer can take the signals himself and thus be responsible for a correct understanding of them.


Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ


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Some of you guys already know this, but the Q had one or more "left hand drive" steam engines which were used exclusively in the Lumber District.

Pete



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