Re: [CBQ] M-2A 2-20-2 feedwater heaters

["Dale Grice" <dfgrice@gmail.com>]

Hi Bill, 

Thanks for reminding me of the assignment sheet in Steam Locomotives of the Burlington. I built a little spreadsheet and sorted them by feed water heater.

Worthingtons outnumbered Elesco by at least 2:1

Dale Geice

On Wed, Jun 8, 2022, 12:03 PM William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com> wrote:

Dale,

If you have a copy of a steam era CB&Q assignment sheet, the type of feed water heater (FWH) is identified for each locomotive number. The different identification symbols are listed along the bottom of the sheet. The symbol for an Elesco FWH is two horizontal lines, for a Worthington its an X and for a Coffin FWH its a paragraph symbol. Other important equipment is similarly identified with other symbols. The assignment sheets are a wealth of information for some details. If you have a copy of Bernard Corbin’s Steam Locomotives of the Burlington Route, there are two assignments sheets provided there on pages 292 and 293. The first is dated 1935, the second 1952. Attached is a snapshot of a portion of the 1935 sheet showing a group of M2As assigned to the Alliance Division. Nos 6150 and 6166 were equipped with Elesco FWHs at that time while the rest all had Worthingtons. The assignment sheets do not differentiate between the older Worthington BL model and the newer Worthington SA model, but in most cases, that is not an issue as the locomotive type pretty well determines which type of Worthington was applied. If you don’t have Corbin’s book, assignment sheets occasionally show up online through EBay and other sites. 

Bill Barber

Gravois Mills, MO 

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