Louis...My dad always did quite accurate sketches...The sketch I have is quite specific as to the location of domes, sand box, whistle and whatever "on top"...He does not show an extended smoke box in his sketch...So I guess the upgrading was after 1915.
Pete
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From: LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, May 25, 2017 10:59 am
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
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:
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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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
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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