Re: [CBQ] Help In Identifying Photo - No. 2954

["Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

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

On Nov 8, 2015, at 1:45 PM, LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

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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