E2s in Local Freight Service

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To add on to Jim’s comment, I have most engine/tender assignments, though not complete.  The earliest tender assignments I have are for the end of the year 1948 for the 26 E-2s that existed then.  At that time, twelve E-2s had USRA 12K tenders and fourteen the N&W 15K’s.

The 573 in December 1948 had 15K tender number 150006.  573 was scrapped at Portsmouth on 12/27/1950.

Your photo could have been earlier than late ‘48 but certainly not later than late ‘50.

Bud Jeffries

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The 15k tender and other details suggest that the date is Very late '40's or early '50's. Prior to that time frame, it would have been a USRA 12k tender.


Jim Nichols



On Wednesday, July 4, 2018 7:29 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:




Since asking the question below, I’ve found a few clues about the photo in question that seem to confirm that E2s were used as a local switcher in Circleville, Ohio.  I wrote a few words about it at the following link, which includes the photo in question. In short, the local shifter would move cars from Dorney to the various customers in Circleville - their total range was probably about four miles.


https://vitower.wordpress.com


Another photo (I haven’t written about it yet) shows a steam locomotive sitting in the same spot that I’ve been told diesels were staged in the late seventies. It seems things didn't change much operationally over forty years.


Matt Goodman

Columbus, Ohio US 


On May 26, 2018, at 7:48 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


Hello all.


I recently came across a photo of an E2 working the Container Corporation (Circleville, Ohio) shipping track. Based on other details in the scene, the photo was taken after 1937. The locomotive has a large-diameter stack and a centered headlight, changes that may refine the earliest possible date. My guess is that it was taken in the early forties since K1s were switching this plant by the time dad was watching trains here in the early fifties.


How common were E2s in local work?  Any ideas of the train size and speeds that the locomotive could manage in this service in the relatively flat areas of the Scioto Division?


Matt Goodman

Columbus Ohio, US




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