CB&Q Fans - Did "Silver Speed" get rebuilt

Yes it did get repaired.  It was originally built by EMD February 17, 1940.  And was transferred to the Colorado & Southern as 9951-A on July 14, 1955 and the name Silver Speed was removed.  They then traded back in to EMD in October of 1967.  After the wreck it had damage to the nose and rear of the unit that was repaired.

Thanks Chris

Traded in on an SD40 10/31/67, BTW.

Rusty

Your welcome Marker.

Rusty thanks for the info....I could not remember what they traded it in for.

Marker for your reference all the disposition charts are located in the Burlington Bulletin #10 "E Units".

I was also told in researching a recent project by a retired E5 maintenance fellow from the Zephyr Pits in Chicago; later transferred to the C&S at Denver most of the names came off in 1960-1961; not really came "off" but unscrewed and "turned-around". 

None of the E5's were traded until March of 1965 with the first trade in of 9912 A/B and 9915 B after a wreck in Bigelow, MO 4/22/63. Only 9914-A was dismantled in December 1960 after the wreck in Nodaway, MO 8/22/60. 

If I am not mistaken, the Fort Worth & Denver also severely wrecked one on the B-RI in Texas in the 1940's.  The CB&Q loaned them an E7A while the E5a was being fixed in the backshop, and I believe that it was repaired by the Q rather than the FW&D.

As I recall, another was in a head-on collision on the C&S.  I thought it was the Broomfield, CO, wreck, but that one may have been an E7A.  I'm pretty sure they wrecked an E5, though, in one of their several postwar head-on collisions on the C&S.

Atleast this one is still with us....  My dad has a photo of me sitting on the front of this one...taken back when I was about 6 or 7 at the IRM.