- 1. [CBQ] Cab lighting (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 20:53:03 -0700
- Can anyone tell me whether the locomotives in use by CB&Q circa 1911 had cab lighting (and presumably headlights) from steam generated power (Pyle-National or similar)? They seem to have been coming
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- 2. Re: [CBQ] identify locomotive (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:31:55 -0700
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- 3. [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:13:14 -0800
- Hi folks: I am researching a locomotive boiler explosion on a Burlington route between Billings MT and Sheridan, WY that killed a great uncle of mine (the engineer) and two other men (January 6, 1911
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- 4. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:04:57 -0700
- Please see attached. I believe this was ALCO 2-8-0 no. 3152. Thanks! On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 9:49 AM Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io> wrote: November 22, 2019 Eric - Sca
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- 5. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:36:14 -0700
- Thanks so much! interesting to see a loco so close to 3152. I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere near a boiler that size if it exploded. On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 11:20 AM Louis Zadnichek via Groups
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- 6. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:42:55 -0700
- Very interesting to see the diamond stack on this 2-8-0. From family history, and an obit from a local paper, the engineer (my great uncle) was not quite 28 when he died, and had been an engineer fo
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- 7. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 17:35:04 -0700
- Thanks again for your insight and kind reply. This would not have come up or attracted my attention, but for the fact that I've been going through old diaries of my maternal grandmother (Engineer Le
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- 8. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:38:45 -0700
- You raise an interesting point, certainly the water up that way, in general, is quite alkaline and scale-forming (I'm a recovering water engineer, and know enough to be dangerous about this). The ne
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- 9. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:07:54 -0700
- When I see these I always try to figure out who is who...Here's my guess...The three guys on the left are the train crew..The tall guy in the middle is the conductor (note the badge on his hat) The
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- 10. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 10:30:34 -0700
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- 11. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 11:43:33 -0700
- I feel that this email conversation has helped me immensely in coming to a reasonable understanding of the circumstances that led to this tragic accident. All the more tragic, I am learning, due to
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- 12. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 11:50:28 -0700
- Agreed. As a youngish guy now in my mid-60's, I shudder at some of the things I did, or tried to do, 40+ years ago. And thanks for the Ranchester depot photo! On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 11:44 AM Louis
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- 13. Re: [CBQ] ICC Accident Investigation reports (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:27:02 -0700
- Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR It used to be possible to view the ICC Accident Investigation reports on line, but access now seems to be restricted at https://dotlibrary.specialcollection.net/Log
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- 14. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:42:13 -0700
- This seems very convincing to me. Compare to the excerpt from the local newspaper account (Sheridan Enterprise, 1-9-1911) I have attached. Very close agreement between your conclusion and what the
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- 15. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:46:12 -0700
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- 16. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric Harmon" <scrimshander1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:51:16 -0700
- With the 10 mile +/- downgrade on Parkman Hill to Ranchester, running at maybe 15-20 mph (as I understand it) wouldn't that have given engineer & fireman at least 30 minutes during which they could h
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