Studio Shots: 3rd Rail CB&Q O5A (1940's)

MAN  SANTIAGO!!!!,,,   Your Taste is impeccable as  Always!!!!..   Sweet!!!!   It always takes time.

Appreciate the kind words, guys. Just sharing what I love. 

Santiago - Nice purchase, of the Poage "H" wheeled water column. Not universal across the Burlington, but sufficiently represented to characterize a number of Burlington locales. In Four ways West's "Burlington Route Passenger Trains - Vol Two", on p.49, just such a column is beautifully pictured, in a Neal Miller photo, next to the eastbound Denver Zephyr in Fort Morgan, CO, pulled by shovel nose (pre E5's) "motors", at sunset, 11-03-47. The same water column was seen at the Galesburg engine facilities, at the mainline coaling tower in Mendota, IL, and at the Centralia, IL engine facilities.  I am sure other locations, too, with out doing research.

Phil McC - think the Burlington held the speed crown in mid to late 1950's with their Twin Cities Zephyrs, in Trains Magazine speed survey conducted by Don Steffee.

A friend of mine has the 3rd rail 5632 locked away in a storage unit.  It's new, never run and he should at least display it in his house but, no, it's hidden from admiring eyes (mine.)  I offered to buy it and he threw a fit because he chased it once & rode on an excursion behind it once and has an attachment.   Ah, well.  People do the weirdest things.   

Those O5s were nice looking engines, but I have never seen them look as nice as they do in Santiago's videos.  How does he do it?

Clear coat tomoro!

SANTIAGOP23 posted:

Mark, finally gathered enough need for parts from Bill Davis to order his Poage e wheel column. I love it! 

...so does your cat, apparently... 

Mark in Oregon

Looks good, Santiago.   Can't get much more Burlington then a Havelock-built express boxcar and a Poage wheel water column. The Burlington just made the right moves!

We loooove the Q! Here with some RPO candy...

Need to resume work on my passenger babies... I can’t believe Scott is making E5’s! A dream come true... I can just see my O5 next to Silver Wings looking like a million dollars 

Got a kick out of your "Road Foreman of Modeling Integrity" eyeing suspiciously the Poage water column box !!

Maybe this is no S-4a 😂😂😂

Oh, for sure, she is an S4a; the big roller bearing rods are the visual clue!     #'s 4002 and 4003 were converted to oil in late 1950. 4002 handled the last non-fan trip passenger train handled by steam on the Burlington - a football special, Omaha-Lincoln, Nov. '56

You know it, Mark! Can't wait to put my Expo behind her!

There were rumors that circulated in 1960 that the Burlington's very creative Passenger Dept. (and successful - it is said the Denver Zephyr was profitable right up to the end of the CB&Q's existence)  was giving thought to instituting a Hudson powered daily passenger train. This was at the peak of ridership and enthusiasm for the Burlington's steam fan trip program. Of course, it never happened - would presume the sharp-pencil boys said it would not pay for itself. The heck of it was, ex-streamlined Aeolus #4001 had a major overhaul in the Denver Shop in 1955 - and was never used!  She might have been a worthy candidate for such an operation. Sadly she was sent to scrap at the end of 1960. She  was an all roller bearing rod Hudson, also of class S4a, and built to back-up passenger diesels on Zephyrs and the Expo.

All I can say to you guyz, Mark S. and Santiago..is thanks for all the C B & Q eye candy.  I used to live about a mile from the 4 track (IIRC) raceway at Naperville.  GREAT modeling!

Nice engine there, Santiago.  Thanks for posting.  When was that built?  Was it recently produced?  

It was a huge rush standing across the street from the Q's main in Berwyn and watching the California Zephyr, the North Coast and the Empire Builder leaving town in the evening.   Those beautiful trains would go past like they were shot out of a cannon.  I'm not quite old enough to recall the S-4s and O5s.  

Thanks, Jimmy and Phil!

The O-5 was a imported by Scott in 2003. The PSC (Boo-Rim) S-4 was also from around that time. 

No. 40, an inaugural second eastbound section of the Exposition Flyer arrives at Denver under the command of O-5-A 5629.

Awesome!! I love when the lines get blurred between our models and real life.

I also need a 3rd Rail locomotive in my life. I feel like I'm missing out!

High quality models for sure.

S P E C T A C U L A R !!!

I also have one but while picking it up the cab decal on one side was damaged. I called Scott Mann to see if I could get a replacement decal. Nope. No luck. Any help out there?

Thanks,

Dick

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Love the grainy B&W old timey film effect. Just superb! Thanks for posting.

Thanks, Mark V!

Impressive!