Re: [CBQ] Non-Brass HO scale model of CB&Q 2-8-2 4960

["Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>]

November 16, 2018

 

Mike - That's an interesting question.  Were the O-4's delivered to the Q as coal burners and then converted by the Q to oil fired, or were they delivered as oil burners.  I have never seen an image of a coal burning O-4.  Does anyone have an image of a coal burning O-4 that they can share with us?  I would tend to think all the O-4's were built as oil burners, but I do not really know one way or the other.  May be Hol will know..... Comments, please.  If the O-4's were delivered as oil burners, that rules out any use on Lines East as there were no oil fueling facilities east of Lincoln to my best knowledge. Thus, for heavy repairs the O-4's would've been most likely sent to Denver, not West Burlington. Best Regards - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

 

 

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From: Mike Martin via Groups.Io <atsf3460=aol.com@groups.io>
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Sent: Fri, Nov 16, 2018 10:45 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Non-Brass HO scale model of CB&Q 2-8-2 4960

Speaking of the smokebox front becoming corroded from the inside all of the O4 locomotives were built as coal burners originally.  I don't think any of them ever burned lignite.  I'd like to build one as delivered someday using an older Akane or Broadway model and letter it US on the tender with CB&Q up on the side of the tender.  I don't know if they were delivered like that from the USRA or not.  Dave Beck, I believe, modeled an M3 2-10-2 lettered like this.  I do have one of the Overland versions of the O4 and I bought it out of pity... it hung around on eBay for days with nobody bidding on it so I grabbed it for something like $180 even though I don't do anything Lines West.  I'm going to treat it as an orphan that got lost on the system that my Lines East took into their herd!

Mike Martin

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