Louis
Sorry – the bad news is that the photo shows WV 101 not FW&D 601. The
good news is that, according to the Bulletin, no in service photos were known
of 101, so you have a first!
According to the Bulletin, the Burlington tested
the unit at various locations after it was received in Chicago from Cummings (where the company
photo now on eBay was taken), then C&S tested it for 5 days, and then
FW&DC tested it in switching for 6 days, before it actually worked on the
WV.
If the numbers and letters were not applied until the Cummins unit was on
FW&DC territory as originally planned, the photo must date between 25
September 1937 (when FW&DC received it from C&S) and February 1938.
Is it possible to get a larger copy of the photo?
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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Rupert - It comes with age.....I misread
your posting. Guess I need to be shopped to have my dry pipe unclogged. I
stand corrected.
Anyway, I do have
an inserted/attached image to share of FW&D 601 taken at Childress, TX.
The image was ID'd as "First Diesel Switch Engine At Childress,
TX 1937" and that would match with your delivery date.
Perhaps, a FW&D-Wichita Valley
expert in our Group would like to further comment on No. 601. As for
the Midwest advertising photograph, may be it
was taken while 601 was testing on the Q in Chicago, or Houston on the
FW&D. The rear cab of the steam locomotive in the background looks Q
to me, but I do not recognize the sand tower (if not a small coal
chute) as Q. Always enjoyable to speculate on these old images. Best
Regards - Louis