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Title: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Pete Pedigo on June 25, 2012, 12:19:13 pm

Train 72 leaving McDoel with 578 on the head end.

On the back of the picture is says Walter Geiger Eng.  March -14  but the year is unreadable.

When was 578 put into service and when was it retired ?

Pete

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Ron Marquardt on June 25, 2012, 12:32:16 pm

Pete, could you post the picture again?  It's awfully small.......  / Ron

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Steve Dolzall on June 25, 2012, 01:11:52 pm

Yes Pete,

I'm having trouble seeing it too.

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Tim T Swan on June 27, 2012, 12:48:32 pm

I can't see it at ALL.

But according to Hilton, Class J4 #578 was built in October, 1929 and sold in June, 1948 to the TA&G.  The J4's were MONON's last new steam locomotives, powerful brutes equipped with steam boosters under their tenders.  If #578  has "MONON" centered on the tender side, it's probably a pre-war photo.  If she does NOT have a Worthington Feedwater Heater (rectangular box atop the smokebox ahead of the stack) or a "switcher" (step) pilot, it is probably early 1930's.  If the "MONON" is painted high up on the tender side with a large "578" centered on the side, it is a late- or post-war photo.

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Ron Marquardt on June 27, 2012, 09:41:22 pm

Tim, you need a better computor or a bigger screen.  Steve and I can see it but it's really, really small.  Could you post a bigger one Pete?  / Ron

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Steve Dolzall on June 28, 2012, 09:56:30 am

Ron, I think the further away from Bloomington you are the photo gets smaller.

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Gene Remaly on June 28, 2012, 11:55:21 am

If it left Mar. 14, it should have been in Laf. by now.  That's a little further North.

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Sharon Eberhard on June 28, 2012, 11:57:02 am

Steve's right.................In Lafayette I don't see a thing


Sharon

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Pete Pedigo on June 28, 2012, 10:11:28 pm

oops,  man you guys are ruthless.  I would send it now but the electronic file is at my office...and I already passed along the original to Ron today......so I can't scan it here to save face.    :(

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Ron Marquardt on June 28, 2012, 10:54:06 pm

Yea, right.....  blame it on the old guy.  LOL.  If I knew which one it was, I'd scan it and post it, but I don't know which one you're talking about.  Oh well, suprise us tomorrow.  / R

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Steve Dolzall on June 29, 2012, 03:39:51 am

Very Presidential, stall and then blame someone else.

Title: Re: 72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?
Post by: Pete Pedigo on July 14, 2012, 08:39:58 am

ok, it's the one with the steam locomotive 578 sitting at the semaphore with the McDoel Mile Marker number on the semaphore mast.  It is one of the photo's I had in the box I gave you from Mrs. Ferguson.   8x10 I think it was