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March 31, 2016
Part One
Group - Hol and I share an interest in Q locomotive dead line images. Hol
recently added four images to his collection showing retired locomotives in the
Lincoln Dead Line taken during 1951, He was kind enough to share with
me along with comments that I'm now passing along to Group members with
Hol's permission. Any other comments about dead lines on Lines East or
West are welcome.
Hol and I both have numerous images showing retired locomotives stored
for scrap, but I have yet to come across an actual photograph of a "funeral
train" consisting of retired locomotives out on the mainline in route
to a scrap yard pulled by either steam or diesel power. If any Group member
has such an image, Hol and I would sure like to see it. I'm attaching Hol's
images below in two separate Emails rather than inserting them individually
since they are large file sizes. Best Regards - Louis
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March 30, 2016
Louis:
Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you on this topic, but I have been
busy with so many different things that this just fell by the wayside.
When I finally got to it, I did a bit of research to see exactly what we're
looking at in these four images. All of them, I believe, are taken in the
yard at Lincoln in August or September 1950, where dead engines were stored from
the 1940s well into the 1960s, when the last of steam was retired and sold for
scrap. I don't think the shot with the way car is a funeral train for
several reasons. First, if it were a train it would be heading west.
Second, the way car has no markers. And third, it was standard practice,
as required or at least recommended by the AAR, to place one or more cars
between each dead locomotive when moving them in a train. All that said,
here's what I see in each image:
CB&Q 1958, 2 more R-4s-5s, Lincoln, Neb., c. 8-1950![]()
R-4 1958 and two more R-4s or R-5s, plus two additional locomotives (likely
S-1-A or S-2-A Pacifics) are being switched by one of the several O-3s used in
heavy switching service at Lincoln. The 1958, assigned to the former Omaha
Division portion of the Lincoln Division, was sold for scrap in August
1950. The only other R-4s and R-5s from the Lincoln or Omaha Divisions
retired at about the same time were the 1910, 2064 and 2096, all Lincoln
engines. And since we have a shot here of the 2096, the two in this photo
must be the 1910 and 2064, both of which have had their stacks removed.
CB&Q 2096, Lincoln, Neb., c. 8-1950 (with S-1-A or
S-2-A)
R-5 2096, sold for scrap in August 1950, is seen with an
S-1-A or S-2-A still trailing an unmodified roll-top tender, pretty unusual at
this late date. I have had no luck, however, identifying which Pacific it
might be (though the right side air pump indicates that it is a Worthington
feedwater heater-equipped engine).
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