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1. [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; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00156.html (11,115 bytes)
2. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:49:16 +0000 (UTC); November 22, 2019 Eric - Scan the newspaper article to us. It may give the road number of the locomotive that exploded. Thanks - Louis Louis Zadnichek II Fairhope, AL In a message dated 11/22/2019 9:; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00157.html (12,828 bytes)
3. 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; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00158.html (14,404 bytes)
4. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:20:17 +0000 (UTC); November 22, 2019 Eric - Thanks. Interesting newspaper articles. Unfortunately, I do not have an image of 3152 to share with you. It's possible another member of this List might have an image. To giv; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00159.html (16,290 bytes)
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; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00160.html (16,759 bytes)
6. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:30:19 +0000 (UTC); November 22, 2019 Eric - Some of the Class D-4-A 2-8-0's were equipped with diamond stacks to reduce the amount of hot cinders raining down and causing line side fires. I've attached an undated image; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00162.html (19,172 bytes)
7. 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; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00163.html (20,055 bytes)
8. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:53:15 +0000 (UTC); Re the question regarding the age of an engineer in early 20th century. My only "source"..if you could call it that is some of the old stories I have read over the years in RAILROAD MAGAZINE. Just in; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00180.html (22,236 bytes)
9. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "jpslhedgpeth via Groups.Io" <jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 17:01:38 +0000 (UTC); GREAT GREAT PICTURE 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 bad; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00181.html (20,098 bytes)
10. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 00:18:26 +0000 (UTC); November 23, 2019 Eric - I'm certainly not a safety engineer, but I'd say the boiler explosion was probably like a lot of other bad accidents then and now, it resulted from a number of unfortunate ci; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00182.html (29,618 bytes)
11. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 23:24:28 +0000 (UTC); November 23, 2019 Eric - Thanks for sharing the portrait photograph of your great uncle J.L. Zum Brunner who died at the throttle when No. 3152's boiler exploded near Ranchester, WY, on January 7, 19; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00183.html (24,133 bytes)
12. 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; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00184.html (29,937 bytes)
13. 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; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00185.html (25,264 bytes)
14. 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; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00189.html (21,671 bytes)
15. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "David Sepos" <sepos.david@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 06:01:19 -0800; Eric, Thanks for sharing your interest in this particular event in your family history. It gives us all the look at the human side of the railroad industry in that era, and the dangers people faced o; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00191.html (12,831 bytes)
16. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "Winton" <runextra@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 08:57:33 -0800; Although a lot of Wyoming has bad water the route of this ill fated train has good water for 100 miles or more both east and west of Ranchester. However, no doubt that the said locomotive did operate; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00193.html (12,844 bytes)
17. 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; _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#58420) | Reply To Group Mute This Topic Your Subscription | Contact Group Owner | Unsubscribe [archives@nau; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00194.html (14,903 bytes)
18. Re: [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:00:50 +0000 (UTC); November 24, 2019 Eric - I note that only two of the three images sent last night were transmitted. Here's the image that didn't go through. It shows the burst boiler laying on the ground some distan; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00195.html (32,279 bytes)
19. 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; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00197.html (33,343 bytes)
20. [CBQ] boiler explosion record Jan 1911 WY? (score: 1): Author: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:44:04 +0000 (UTC); November 24, 2019 Eric - This is a very likely scenario proposed by a former Sheridan Division locomotive engineer who knows the route through Ranchester well. Particularly so if your great uncle was; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-11/msg00198.html (16,738 bytes)

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