August 31, 2017
Hol and Group - Very interesting. I've inserted/attached a third image of oil-burning 2952. This one was taken at Alliance, NE, in 1940:
What was the "cylinder" hanging off the front side of the firebox? I've checked my other fireman side images of Class S-3 locomotives and none show this cylinder. I have no idea of what it was, do you? 2952 was the second of her class to be retired. She
was sold for scrap in September 1949. Best Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 8/31/2017 9:25:52 A.M. Central Daylight Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
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from Hol Wagner included below]
The two attached images show what a difference a year can make in the appearance of a steam locomotive. In the first view, S-3 Pacific 2952 appears at St. Louis on March 27, 1936, as a coal-burner modernized with an Elesco feedwater heater and the application
of a Delta B cast steel trailing truck in place of the original fabricated Rushton trailing truck. But in the other view it is seen at the C&S roundhouse in Denver during 1937, in use on Denver-Billings trains 29-30, and now converted to burn oil and, oddly,
with the Rushton trailing truck again in place. A different pilot has also been applied, raising the possibility that 2952 had been involved in an accident somewhere and the changes were made during repairs, probably in the Denver joint shop. This is the
only instance I've seen of a modernization/improvement (the Delta B truck) being removed and the original truck restored.
Hol
