Re: [CBQ] Confusing Train Order

["'John Trulson' norskeviking@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Comparing the 3 and the 8, the unknown number more closely resembles the number 5 than the way the other two numbers are written. As you mention though, what and why would an oil burner assigned to Sterling be doing there ? All this doesn't help and adds to the mystery.

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From: Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]

To: CB&Q Group

Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 9:35 AM

Subject: [CBQ] Confusing Train Order [1 Attachment]

 

Help!  The attached 1927 train order is for sale on eBay, and I can't figure out what locomotive it refers to.  It's issued to the conductor and engineer of No. 3, the all stops passenger local across Missouri and down to Kansas City from Cameron Jct.  It was issued at Lathrop to set up a meet at Holt, both of which are on the Cameron Jct.-to-Kansas City segment.  It reads, "No. 3 meet Second 70 [?] Eng. ?018 at Holt."

I'm not sure the freight referred to is second 70, as the first number does not match the 7 is the date above, and it could be a 2, though it doesn't match any other 2s on the order.  But the really problematic thing is the engine number, the first numeral of which looks like either a 3 or possibly a 5.  The Q had no locomotive number 3018, and the 5018 was an oil-burning O-1 Mikado assigned to the Sterling Division on Lines West in July 1927.  Anybody got any ideas?

Hol

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Posted by: "John Trulson" <norskeviking@msn.com>

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