May 24, 2017
Pete - Your dad and Class S-2-A No. 2914 shared at least one thing in
common, both were well traveled..... From the plains of Wyoming and Nebraska,
sometime in its life 2914 migrated to Lines East and ended-up finishing its
career in suburban service between Chicago Union Station and Aurora, IL. I'm
inserting/attaching two images, one of the engineer's side and one of the
fireman's side.
CB&Q 2914 No Other Information - My educated
guess is the deadline at the Clyde roundhouse in Cicero,IL, near the time it was
sold for scrap in April 1954.
CB&Q 2914 Downers Grove, IL Suburban Yard February 4,
1951
Unfortunately, I do not have an image of 2914 as built by the Baldwin
Locomotive Company as a Class S-2 in 1910. And, I do not have any images of 2914
on Lines West. Perhaps, another Group member does. Sometime during its
long career, 2914 was equipped with an Elesco feed water heater. I would think
your dad's 1915 sketch would show 2914 without a feed water heater. Now you know
what 2914 actually looked like nearing its retirement on Lines East.
Best Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 5/23/2017 8:52:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
I have a sketch photo my dad made of engine 2914....He notes
on the back J. Hedgpeth age 9..That would make the date of the sketch
1915.
I wonder if any of you guys who have the old assignment sheets can tell
me where this engine was summer 1915.
I'm thinking it somewhere on the Alliance or Casper Divisions at that
time
My grandfather "traveled" for the Lincoln Drug company in the western
Nebraska, SW South Dakota and eastern Wyoming during the years
1908-1917.
During summers of those years my dad and my grandmother would go out to
his territory with him. His headquarters was Alliance NE and he owned a
drug store at Scottsbluff at that time. Hence I'm thinking that my dad
may have seen that engine somewhere around Alliance, Scottsbluff, Casper
etc.
I have that sketch framed and hanging on my wall and it would be a really
good thing if I could caption the photo with the possible location of the
engine during the summer months 1915.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Pete
