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What the Brochures Don't Say: |
mmn#14; EMC SC, sn. 711, blt. 7-37; ex MP 9001, now at Illinois Railway Museum |
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on Winton engines / cast frames:
#14 as an identification guide In its early days, Electro-Motive offered its Winton engine-powered switchers with either welded (fabricated) or cast frames. From a distance, the difference is hard to spot, but close-up inspection reveals a General Steel Casting Corporation logo (right) near the step wells and a significantly heavier-looking frame (see photo, next section) on the cast frame versions . |
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further visual intelligence on #14 |
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Foxes in the wild While puns are common around Wx4, pics of Fox trucks are not: these two D&R flats are the only equipment with these trucks that we have ever encountered au naturale (i.e., not on a museum/tourist line). |
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Postscript: After we left, the 14 went to seed and the flats disappeared. While the engine is still extant in pretty bad shape at the Illinois Railway Museum, we have no idea about the fate of the flat cars. The photo below shows the situation at Russellville a few years later.
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Photo credit: Ahem, we found this photo, er, misfiled sans accompanying credit file, and, um, it was too sweet to pass up. So, ah, if the photographer will identify himself and indulge us, ack, we will award him/her with our highly-coveted Wx4 Medal O'Freedom. | |||
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Update, 2017
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Additions, 2017
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Four years after Wx4's visit, Charles Lamphere found an identical scene. Wx4 collection Color photos of D&R in steam days are exceeedingly rare, we figure. Here's a Kodachrome by C.H. Roy of 2-6-0 #11 circa 1950, likely still in active use.She was constructed as M-K-T #444 (subsequently renumbered 402, 931, 1205), later sold to Rockdale and Southern (#4),then D&R, which scrapped her in 1955. Wx4 collection |
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6-2021 D&R #8 is one of our all-time favorite locomotives. Above, here she is in 1939 in her usual home. A year later, Twentieth Century Fox hauled her to California, and she has remained in the West ever since. In August, 1979 I was delighted to find her amid the detritus inside Sierra Railway's roundhouse at Jamestown. As we understand it, she has been residing at the Virginia & Truckee since the mid-1980's.
top: photographer unknown, Wx4 collection |
Sixty years ago, a Charles Clegg photo of Dardanelle & Russellville
ten-wheeler #11 in Mixed Train Daily initiated our interest in this
five mile Arkansas short line. A decade later, we encountered the
much-traveled D&R 4-4-0 #8 in Jamestown CA (now at the Nevada
State RR Museum), painted-up as Sierra RR #8. Finally, in May 1980,
we visited Russellville, to find a genuine Winton-engined EMC SC
sandwiched in-between two ancient wooden flat cars riding Fox
trucks. But it was a Sunday: nothin' runnin'; everyone in church.