Re: [CBQ] Help In Identifying Photograph

["Art Lischer alisch80@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Louis,

This looks like a SW view just east of the Red Oak Depot. There is a house  on Oakwood Street just south of the yard that has a similar roof line. I wish Dad was still alive. He would know for sure.

Art Lischer

On Dec 13, 2015 4:57 PM, "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

December 13, 2015

 

Michael and Gordon - Thanks for further details. So 373 fell into the Council Bluffs turntable pit. I had questioned Red Oak as it had a wye as I recall and no turntable. Plus, a SD9 would've been too big and heavy for most branch line turntables. Does anyone recognize where 373 and 1553 were photographed? For modelers, here's proof that a badly damaged, yet repairable, diesel was included in a Q scrap train. Merry Christmas - Louis   

 

In a message dated 12/13/2015 3:32:04 P.M. Central Standard Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:

BB 47 pg. 48. 12-13-60 it went into the pit at Council Bluffs, Ia. Was rebuilt at West Burlington after several months.

 

Gordon

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From: LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]

To: cbq@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 4:01 PM

Subject: [CBQ] Help In Identifying Photograph

December 13, 2015

 

All - This unusual image shows a fire blackened SD9 coupled to a retired 0-6-0 somewhere on Lines East in 1961. Must be winter time from the bare trees and dusting of snow on the tracks. Information with the image says the SD9 is No. 373 that had reportedly fallen into the turntable pit at Red Oak, IA, and caught fire. The 0-6-0 is unidentified, but almost certainly has to be No. 1553 that sat in the Lincoln, NE, deadline for several years prior to being sold for scrap in December 1960.  

 

 

Can anyone provide more details on 373 falling into the turntable pit and burning, as well as its disposition. Was it rebuilt at the West Burlington Shops, or was it used as a trade-in for newer EMD power? As for 1553, since the 0-6-0 is headed east from Lincoln, that probably means the switcher had been sold to NWS&W in Sterling, IL for scrapping. Could the image location be Red Oak, or was it taken further east? Comments, please. Merry Christmas - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

 

 

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