Re: [CBQ] Burning Up The Ballast At Altona

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

October 29, 2020

Charlie - Retired CB&Q/BN/BNSF locomotive engineer Bill Franckey has done extensive research over a number of years into the Knox College photographic and paper collections.  He used some number of their priceless images and much paper memorabilia in his recently self-published and very limited edition 295 page book "Galesburg - Capital Of The Burlington Railroad."

No one is more familiar with the Q material in the Knox College collections than Bill. Plus, Bill's book (it may be out of print by now) is genuinely a one of a kind and a very worthy addition to any Q historian's library. I cherish my copy - Louis

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

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From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
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On subject…..

This looks like a Green photo similar to those in the Knox College online digital collection.

Has anyone done research (pre pandemic….seems all the research libraries are closed in spite of little danger in social distancing violations) at Knox College to see if there are undigitized/unposted images in the Green collection?

Many of his shots were taken on the East End but not attributed as such…..and with the paucity of pre-1930 images of the Aurora-Chicago line it would be a goldmine if there were more images there.

Charlie Vlk

Mt. Juliet, TN

 

From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of Louis Zadnichek via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 4:19 PM
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Subject: [CBQ] Burning Up The Ballast At Altona

 

October 28, 2020

 

Group - The "flying" locomotive burning up the ballast at Altona, IL, in the attached image is a nearly new Class S-1 passenger 4-6-2 type.  Note that it's powering an express train of refrigerator cars.  No doubt the hottest train on the division that long ago day in 1908!  May be the cars were loaded with apples from Washington State or some other very valuable perishable freight requiring passenger train speeds to get it to market in time. I don't think the cargo was silk as that was handled in baggage cars. Look closely and you can see the head brakeman standing-up on the tender facing backwards on the engineer's side to check his train for hot boxes or other problems. 

 

Plus, you can just barely see the elevated crossing guard shack at far left that has a bell.  No doubt it's ringing loudly to warn of the fast approaching reefer express. An "exciting" action image, even some 112 years later. I imagine that the hogger had just about slung out the journal box oil on all the reefer trucks from the high speed run. This is the only photograph I've ever seen of a Class S-1 powering a reefer express. This image and nearly 27,500 others can now be found on the BRHS Website Members Only Section in the Flickr Section. Also just posted are a wide selection of 4960/5632 fan trip fliers from the late 1950s and into the mid-1960s. Have a look!  - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL 

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