The gentleman in the tie is Mr. Tyler and Alonzo Weaver is the engineer. The photo was probably taken at Belmont Yard on the west side of Indy. George E Weaver photo. I am unable to locate this engine in any locomotive roster that I have access to. It seems that 4-4-2 information is hard to come by. The 'New York Central Lines' on the tender is badly worn. Any further info would be appreciated - rph
Here's what I've been able to dig up, hope it helps. http://www.steamlocomotive.com/atlantic/?page=nyc There is a chart of all the Central's Atlantics at the bottom of the linked URL. The I-61-superheated is about the middle column of the chart. The following was extracted from near the middle of the text in the same link. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Class I-61 - superheated (Locobase 4097) Taken from a table in Paul T Warner's article on Atlantics in the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin #62 (1943, p 20). Additional data from the CCC&StL 3 - 1914 Locomotive Diagrams, supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection. Official name for the railroad was the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis. These were obvious successors to the eight-wheelers put into service on the Big Four's expresses just a few years earlier. They offered little more power, but with the substantially bigger boiler and grate, were probably able sustain that power for much longer with a much heavier train.
Yes it did. I have that site in my links page but I've just not gone far enough! Thanks. It makes my thoughts of 1926 all the more possible for the loco.
Nice work, Hank. George Drury's book shows the classes I-60 to I-63, all 40 of them from Brooks/Alco assigned to the CCC&StL. In one of Staufer's rosters, from 1944, there weren't many left, but surprisingly a few. :tb-biggrin: Thanks again Roger for more of our road's history.
Roger, that link did not respond to "Atlantic" as it had done with "Pacific", "Hudson", etc., so on a SWAG I entered "4-4-2", and lo-n-behold....:tb-cool: Sometimes it pays to have been a Computer Hacker in the 60s and 70s.....:tb-ooh: It's interesting that your photo shows Baker valve gear with a vertically oriented piston valve steam chest, yet she was built with Stepheson gear which usually had either vertically oriented slide valve chests, or inward leaning piston valve chests. No mention of when, or how many mods she underwent.
