Re: No Double-Heading 48w's and/or 49w's on D&RGW and C&TS Trestles ?
| January 10, 2021 12:32PM |
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Herb Kelsey Wrote:
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> In all of this I assume the "X" has taken the
> place of "waterbag," as in "Four-Eighty-Water-
> bag", "Four-Seventy-Waterbag," etc.
Not exactly, Herb -
The 'x' in the subject lines of my posts above was intended to take the place of the last digit in a class designation, as in K-36 or K-37 for the bigger Mikes and K-27 or K-28 for the smaller ones, rather than the last digit of an engine number. Since there's only one K-27 still living in Colorado '46w' (where 'w' = 'waterbag') could only be #463, whereas 47w could be any of three engines after seven K-28's were sent to Alaska, and 48w or 49w could be any of several engines of the two larger classes.
For newbies to the NGDF, here's an illustration of what Herb is referring to: the difficulty of identifying a particular locomotive in some older photos due to waterbags obscuring the numbers on the cab — all too often the critical third digit, as in this scene on Bocea Hill in late January, 1962:
It looks like the helper above is K-36 #487 and the road engine is K-37 #493, but it's hard to be sure – especially the road engine, which could be #498 . . .
(Not that it really matters much with such a mediocre old run-of-the-mill snapshot anyway.)
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/10/2021 06:03PM by Johnson Barr.
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> In all of this I assume the "X" has taken the
> place of "waterbag," as in "Four-Eighty-Water-
> bag", "Four-Seventy-Waterbag," etc.
Not exactly, Herb -
The 'x' in the subject lines of my posts above was intended to take the place of the last digit in a class designation, as in K-36 or K-37 for the bigger Mikes and K-27 or K-28 for the smaller ones, rather than the last digit of an engine number. Since there's only one K-27 still living in Colorado '46w' (where 'w' = 'waterbag') could only be #463, whereas 47w could be any of three engines after seven K-28's were sent to Alaska, and 48w or 49w could be any of several engines of the two larger classes.
For newbies to the NGDF, here's an illustration of what Herb is referring to: the difficulty of identifying a particular locomotive in some older photos due to waterbags obscuring the numbers on the cab — all too often the critical third digit, as in this scene on Bocea Hill in late January, 1962:
It looks like the helper above is K-36 #487 and the road engine is K-37 #493, but it's hard to be sure – especially the road engine, which could be #498 . . .
(Not that it really matters much with such a mediocre old run-of-the-mill snapshot anyway.)
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
"Not All Who Have Cell-Phones Do Twitter *
"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think . . . "
* Only TWITS Twitter!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/10/2021 06:03PM by Johnson Barr.
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