Louis:
The train in that photo would be either 301-302 or 303-304, the Denver-Alliance trains. Trains 29-30 were Denver-Billings runs via C&S and Q, known in later years as the Night Crawler. The photo is likely of No. 304, as it was the only one of the four
that passed through the Sterling area in daylight.
Note that 2915 in this photo had the Elesco FWH applied to the top of the extended L&B smokebox. And it still sports the original fixed position (i.e., rigid) trailing truck, while 2914 has a Delta B cast steel trailer.
Hol
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 9:57 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Engine 2914 [1 Attachment]
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May 25, 2017
Hol and Pete - Interestingly enough, 2914 as a Class S-2 locomotive appears to have been equipped with an extended smoke box for burning lignite coal on Lines West. I guess that when 2914 was upgraded to a Class S-2-A and outfitted with an Elesco feed
water heater, the smoke box was shortened as it appears in later years on Lines East. The Class S-2-A's were a good, durable and capable design that lasted right up to the end of steam operations on both Lines West and East in the early-to-mid-1950s.
The Chicago General Offices mechanical department considered them to be dependable locomotives for use on start-and-stop suburban trains right-up until diesels took over. With their relatively light axle loading, they were also favored for branch line use
on Lines West where many of them worked out their last days. The Q purchased the entire 50 Class S-2's in 1910, a large locomotive order for the time. According to the Corbin Book, the last Class S-2-A retired was the 2905 that was sold for scrap in May 1955
at the ripe old age of 45 years. Whereas all the S-2 and S-2-A images posted earlier are static views, I'm going to insert/attach one final image of Class S-2-A No. 2915 in its element rolling local passenger train No. 30 under a clean stack across the vast
plains of northeastern Colorado near Sterling on May 28, 1938, not quite 79 years ago this week:
 Sadly, none of these beautiful locomotives were preserved. Best Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 5/25/2017 9:33:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
Pete:
Sorry to be so slow in answering your query. The earliest Lines West assignment sheet I have is for Sept. 1, 1914, and it shows 2914 assigned to the Alliance Division. The next Lines West sheet I have is for 1918, and 2914 is still at Alliance.
I don't have any early views of the engine, and the only view I know of before it was rebuilt is an Otto Perry photo in Denver in 1928:
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/42886/rv/singleitem/rec/1
I also have this view at Red Oak in April 1938, but not taken by Corbin:
Otto Perry also shot 2914 on a passenger train at St. Louis in the early 1930s. She did indeed get around.
Hol
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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Engine 2914 [2 Attachments]
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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
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