I think Pete and Michael are closer than Leo. The 2954 was a McCook Division engine through the early 1930s, until it was converted into an oil-burner sometime between March and June 1935 and reassigned to the Lincoln Division. Since it's a coal-burner
in this photo and flying the white flags of an extra in a time when, out here on the west end, local passenger trains were often run as mixed trains with waycars on the rear (though obviously this is not a regular, scheduled train, since it has no head-end
equipment), my guess is an eastbound extra at the east end of McCook, where a road crossing over the tracks looks much like this one.
Hol
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My knee jerk reaction was an eastbound train at Ravenna, NE.
msw
marion, ia
On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 3:55 PM,
qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Louis,
Maybe it's my Aurora Division background, but I see three mains and two side tracks. Reminds me of just east of Naperville depot on the North side where the lead tracks for Kroehlers were located. That would explain the Pacific
but I can't explain the Waycar.
If so this is westbound train.
Leo
November 8, 2015
Group - I've attached an interesting Q image that is unidentified. Can any one tell us what's going on? Note the three "elderly" passenger coaches along with the way car on the rear end. The baggage car looks nearly loaded
with crates, or could those be partitions of some kind? Also, there's some type of unusual spark arrestor "cap" on the stack. White flags appear to be displayed on the locomotive. Lastly, a Class K ten-wheeler or Class R prairie would've been more than enough
for this short train. Wonder why it rated No. 2954, a big Class S-3 pacific? If you enlarge the image, there doesn't appear to be any Burlington Route herald on the tender. Could this be a mixed train without freight cars on some Lines West branch line, or
some long forgotten agricultural extra? The image appears to have been posed with the train stopped. Perhaps, someone in the engineer's family took the original photograph. A lot of questions here to be answered. Comments appreciated. Best Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
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