Very cool find and research, Hol. And, great job on the photo clean-up.
Cheers!
Jan Kohl
castlegraphics.com
On 11/9/2015 11:20 AM, Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ] wrote:
> I recently bought the attached postcard photo on eBay and spent a good deal
> of time cleaning it up. The image was unidentified except for the penciled
> notation on the back, "Wreck on CB&Q RR out of Marsland [Neb.] where Santafe
> Johnson was killed." Looking at the image I was able to identify the boiler
> about to be raised and loaded on the FM-7 steel flatcar coupled to the
> wrecker's boom car as belonging to an O-1 Mikado -- the same class of engine
> coupled to the wrecker. The FM-7 flats came in 1909, as did the 75-ton
> Industrial wrecking derricks, and the O-1s came at the end of 1910 and
> beginning of 1911, so at least I had a starting date for trying to pin down
> the actual date of the accident. Even with Rupert's help we got nowhere
> searching for accidents near Marsland, but when I Googled Santa Fe Johnson I
> was quickly reminded that he was the engineer killed in the boiler explosion
> of O-1 5020 on Provo Hill, well beyond Marsland in the southwest corner of
> South Dakota, on Feb. 15, 1913. Several group members (myself included)
> posted photos of the remains of 5020 after the crown sheet rupture neatly
> separated the locomotive's boiler from its running gear. Pete Hedgpeth
> posted a view of the right side of the boiler after the explosion, taken from
> the front end, where this photo shows the left side from the rear end. But
> there is no doubt that this is indeed the 5020 after it blew. The scenery --
> or lack of it -- is the same in both photos.
>
>
> I actually bought the photo as much for the pressed steel truck under the
> derrick's boom car as for the overall scene. The Q was not an advocate of
> pressed steel construction for either passenger or freight cars or their
> trucks, and it simply did not purchase cars with pressed steel trucks. Thus
> the boom car is in all likelihood a wreck victim itself, which the Q was
> forced to pay for and recouped some of its loss by repairing the car and
> converting it for company service. But just what is that truck?
>
>
> With those leaf springs above each journal, it's not a Fox truck, the most
> common of the pressed steel freight car trucks that flooded the market in the
> mid- to late 1890s and remained in favor not much beyond 1910. Again, Google
> found the answer for me, and I'm attaching an brief article on the Cloud
> riveted steel freight car truck patented by John W. Cloud in 1896. Cloud was
> secretary of the Master Car Builders Association and the Master Mechanics
> Association, and his truck began to be produced by Schoen (soon to become
> Pressed Steel Car Company) during 1897.
>
>
> It's hard to imagine how long it would have taken to uncover the information
> about this photo before the advent of the internet and Google. It certainly
> could have been done, but it would have taken many hours -- days, probably --
> and visits to one or more libraries.
>
>
> Hol
>
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