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August 31, 2017
Hol and Group - I've checked my digital archive for photos of S-3
locomotives with arched cab windows. Besides the 2952, sisters 2969, 2962, 2961
and 2958 were so equipped. Some of the windows are "more rounded" than others.
Here's an inserted/attached image of 2969 taken at Kansas City, MO, on October
19, 1947:
I do not have an image of each S-3, so there may be others that also had
arched cab windows. The five S-3's we've identified are a mix of
conventional "short" and extended "long" smoke boxes, so we can't say that
all were lignite burners assigned to Lines West meaning that the arched windows
might've been created at the Denver Shops. WHY this was done to some
S-3's and not others is a mystery for sure.... - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 8/31/2017 12:30:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
John:
It's not just you; they are indeed rounded rather substantially at the
top. A very unusual change made since the 1937 view at Denver, and one
I've never seen on another Q locomotive. Wonder why it was done?
Hol
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<CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of John Trulson norskeviking@msn.com
[CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
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11:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [CBQ]
Interesting Changes in an S-3
Is it just me, or are the side windows rounded on the top.
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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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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
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