October 14, 2015
Hol - OK, I'll make a search of my images and see if any 0-6-0 stands out.
I encourage others in this Group to do the same. May be one of us has an image
of a left handed switcher. Best Regards - Louis
In a message dated 10/14/2015 12:50:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
Sounds reasonable. Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015
12:44:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [CBQ] Left handed engines
October 14,
2015
Hol - Again, thanks for looking. This is indeed a "mystery." I suppose by
now all such Clyde roundhouse and Chicago Mechanical
Department records are lost to history, but there certainly had to been a
list of left handed locomotives at one time. I've given some thought
about differences in outward appearance of left handed locomotives over their
conventional sisters. I think what would've been moved to the left hand side
of the cab were the air brake stand, throttle quadrant and reverse lever
(Johnson Bar). Injectors would've stayed in place. So, if that is true, then
if anyone has an image of an 0-6-0 with the reverse lever linkage showing on
the fireman's left hand side, then that locomotive must've been set-up for
left hand operation. Do you agree? Best Regards -
Louis
In a message dated 10/14/2015 11:18:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
No notations in the diagram sheets that I can find, going back
as far as 1912. Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 14 Oct
2015 11:43:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [CBQ] Left handed
engines
October 14,
2015
Hol - Thanks for looking. One other idea, can you please check your
steam locomotive diagram books for 0-6-0 types to see if any notations are
made on the diagrams as to certain locomotives being set-up for left
handed operation. You'd think that the Q mechanical department would've made
such notations "some where." Best Regards -
Louis
In a message dated 10/14/2015 8:45:51 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
Louis and Group: No, there is nothing on any of
the assignment sheets in my collection indicating left hand
controls. The earliest sheets I have (1907) have no notes at the
bottom as to locomotive equipment. By 1914 there were two notes:
equipped with stoker and equipped for burning oil. Notes were added
steadily into the 1920s, mostly specifying stoker and later feedwater
heater types. So no luck there in identifying the left-handed
engines. Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 13 Oct
2015 16:55:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [CBQ] Left handed
engines
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
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
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.
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