There are photos of the Baldwin switchers on the Congress Park job. This job often went as far west as Downers Grove to leave west and/or North cars for through trains to pickup.
The Baldwin’s were sometimes referred to as “Queen Mary’s” due to the number of exhaust stacks on both forms of transportation.
Leo Phillipp On Aug 21, 2020, at 12:00 PM, jpslhedgpeth via groups.io <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
thlanks Hol..you certainly are correct re Baldwin vs Alco. As the years go by I suffer more and more from the "THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE TO ME" syndrome. This "quotation" was first uttered back in the 50's when a Senior member of the Lincoln Railfans Club who was then just a bit younger than I am now made that comment when the diesel engine became a prominent feature in any discussion of motive power on our beloved CB&Q.
I can't honestly say that I EVER saw an Alco out this way although I may have, but it surely would have made no significant impression on me as Being out of place"
Pete
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From: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
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Pete:
I believe those were Baldwin VO1000s on the St. Joe Division rather than Alcos -- 9350-9379 rather than 9300-9308.
Hol
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Some of those Alcos found a home on the old St. Joe Division. They worked Murray Yard at KC and also St. Joe yard and branch lines. Also branch lines out of Red Oak...I have a photo of one of them at the Engine House
at Villisca in December 1953 and distinct memories of seeing them working the yard at Red Oak...In fact Jim Christen and I saw one derail right in front of the depot at Red Oak at the track on the south side where the combines for the Hamburg branch were kept.
Jim and I had been hanging rund for some time and the foreman on the switch crew came over an accused us of "monkeying around with the switch. Believe it or not in all my years of "hanging around and working for both the Q and the RI that was the first, last
and only derailment that I saw actually take place.
Pete
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From: Douglas Hosler <dehosler40@gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, Aug 21, 2020 9:15 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] THE OLD ALCO S2 SWITCHEN OUT STONE AVE REA.
Speaking of non-EMD/EMC diesels, did the Chicago-based Baldwin VO-1000’s that I see (in photos) used to haul passenger consists in and out of CUS ever stray much from that role? I gather the VO-1000’s (whether in Chicago or elsewhere) were forced on the
EMD/EMC-loving Q by wartime restrictions.
Doug Hosler
Wausau, WI
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:02 AM, Michael Woodruff wrote:
Looks like an EMD NW2, not an Alco, but a nice photo nonetheless.
It looks to me like the number is 9227 which would indeed make it an EMD NW2. Definitely not an Alco S-2.
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Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
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