Brian:
Having served for over 30 years as editor of Rocky Mountain Construction magazine and dealing with heavy equipment on a daily basis, I can assure you John is correct in his assessment of these two machines. The dragline
with the wooden cab body (also called the house) and the number ending in 02 is likely also a product of Northwest Engineering. And the scene is almost certainly just south of Deadwood, S.D., where highway US-85/385 paralleled the Q and Whitewood Creek up
from Pluma. The final photo is in an entirely different area and shows some sort of construction underway, though for the life of me I cannot figure out what.
Hol
From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of John Mitchell via Groups.Io <icrr1680=yahoo.com@groups.io>
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 10:15 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Tracked Steam Shovels
Technically, none of these photographs are "steam shovels". None are steam powered and first three are pictures of a dragline and the others are of
a power shovel i.e. internal combustion engine power. It probably has a gasoline engine, but maybe it has an early diesel engines. Likewise, the dragline has an internal combustion engine. Q off track machines were numbered in three digit numbers. They are
likely working one of the Q's ballast pits of which there were several on the Lines West.
On Thursday, May 3, 2018 9:46 PM, Brian Garner <harleyhorse74@gmail.com> wrote:
Here are some more photos I have acquired. They are of tracked steam shovels. I believe they were all taken in the same location. In one of the photos you can see both shovels. They look to have been taken in Wyoming or South Dakota.
One is numbered 609 and the other shows a partial number of 02. I am not sure what the last photo is but it was with the rest of the photos. Looks like some kind of form for a canal possibly. Hoping someone may have any idea on where these shovels were
based out of.
Thanks,
Brian
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