July 18, 2016
Hol - Doesn't look "Q" to me. The stored steam locomotive in the distance
at far right looks like a C&NW 0-6-0 to me. If indeed Q, then maybe St.
Joseph, MO, where the roundhouse was fairly close to the Missouri River. But,
that LARGE steel fuel oil tank just doesn't look "Q" to me. Best Regards -
Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 7/18/2016 12:08:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
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Can anyone in the group identify this Burlington roundhouse beside
a large river -- though not as large as the Mississippi. I'm at a
loss to identify it. Of brick construction, it has 14 exhaust jacks and
therefore 14 stalls. That's a brick power plant and machine shop
building adjacent to it, and there's a Q standard 50,000-gallon wooden water
tank on steel supports, a large steel storage tank, possibly for fuel oil, and
a big wooden coal chute in the distance, along with three
possibly stored steam locomotives, though the coal chute is still active
as there are hoppers on the delivery track. The negative of this image
is currently for sale on eBay, and it's supposedly taken in 1952. Archie
has confirmed that my first thought, Hannibal, is not correct, as, among other
things, the roundhouse and river are both too small. I have
looked at roundhouse lists and there are very few possibilities. I
thought possibly Greybull, Wyo., but the Greybull River is on the other side
of town from the roundhouse, which also is of wooden construction.
Gibson roundhouse at Omaha comes to mind, but it was also wooden and the coal
chute is wrong, among other things. I'm baffled; I'm hopeful one of you
can identify it.
Hol
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