72 with Steam 578 leaving McDoel March - 14 - ?

[Pete Pedigo]

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

[Ron Marquardt]

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

[Steve Dolzall]

Yes Pete,

I'm having trouble seeing it too.

[Tim T Swan]

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.

[Ron Marquardt]

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

[Steve Dolzall]

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

[Gene Remaly]

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

[Sharon Eberhard]

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


Sharon

[Pete Pedigo]

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.   

[Ron Marquardt]

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

[Steve Dolzall]

Very Presidential, stall and then blame someone else.

[Pete Pedigo]

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