Steam & Excursion > BB: CN 2-10-2 #4320 (1958)

Bruce Black took this pic of CN 2-10-2 #4320 on 11/2/58 @ Transcona, MB.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/15/19 11:56 by valmont.

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Rode hard and put away wet!

Beautiful color steam photo.
Bob

Nice

Now that is a real brute!
 

Love it, rode hard indeed.  Most in service locomotives looked a lot like this back in the day, and now modelers refer to it as "weathering."



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/15/19 19:51 by nycman.

On many roads steam power was allowed to get really filthy, especialy at the end of steam.  Things were different in those long gone glory days.....before dieselization started.

AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

Love it !!!!

I like it.

Beautiful.   Simply beautiful!    This look, weathering and filth and grime shown on this engine was why I frankly was disappointed in seeing the Big Boy head west out of Cheyenne.  It didn’t have any of the noise or appearance shown in the vintage photos by photographers of the 40’s or 50’s.   While I can understand it being cleaned up, it lacked the drama of the old pictures that I have studied since a kid.    Oh, I saw it, but it was such a pushed, whistling boiler.

Looks like there was no shortage of alkali in the water, or is it just from the boiler water treatment that they used?

I recall getting  a call from a woman in California complaining about the “filthy” 3985 in San Jose.  Steve had let it get an in sevice patina for railfan photographers.

Some days you can’t win.

JB - Omaha

Copy19 Wrote:
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> Rode hard and put away wet!

That's what I was thinking. Then I looked down and saw that you had already posted that.

All I can say is, "Wow!"

Copy19 Wrote:
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> I recall getting  a call from a woman in
> California complaining about the “filthy” 3985
> in San Jose.  Steve had let it get an in sevice
> patina for railfan photographers.
>
> Some days you can’t win.
>
> JB - Omaha

JB, There is "patina", and then there is filthy, really filthy.....like the end of steam on the UP, or the Pennsy......coal roads for the most part.....or the old friendly SP.......all of whom once kept their power cleaner.....or was it just less filthy?

I think Mr Lee hit the sweet spot with his attention to appearance chores......perhaps the least important of all it takes to conduct a road trip.

AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

What is sad to me is too see color photos at the end of steam with in service locos with rust on the smokebox and other locations. I suppose they were just getting the last miles out of them before they quit.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> What is sad to me is too see color photos at the
> end of steam with in service locos with rust on
> the smokebox and other locations. I suppose they
> were just getting the last miles out of them
> before they quit.

That smokebox rust probably comes stopping the graphite and oil treatment.
 

True.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com


ts1457 Wrote:
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> > the smokebox and other locations. I suppose
> they
> > were just getting the last miles out of them
> > before they quit.
>
> That smokebox rust probably comes stopping the
> graphite and oil treatment.
>