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Just one more thing...said Columbo...I forgot to note in my last message that the 1915 sketch does not show the feedwater heater. Pete
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From: Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, May 25, 2017 11:17 am Subject: Re: [CBQ] Engine 2914 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] [Attachment(s) from LZadnichek@aol.com included below]
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
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