East Broad Top #11

[bob kaplan]

Lee Rainey's EAST BROAD TOP has a builder photo of #11 at Baldwin in 1908. (pg90)  The engine has a metal cab at the time of "birth."

IMAGES OF RAIL: THE EAST BROAD TOP (Kenneth C. Springirth) page 26, has a photo of her in the "early 1930's at Rockhill Furnace round house...."with most certainly a smaller wooden cab.

I thought that this would never have been done....why would a company go from a metal to a wood cab?  Any photos of #11 other than the IMAGES one show her with a metal cab....but I don't think there are many photos of her at all.....Anyone any idea?   Thanks.

[ebtnut]

Any way you can post the photo?  Sometimes the caption writers don't quite get their facts straight.

[bob kaplan]

might this work?   Here she is with the wood cab....all other pic I have seen show the metal

http://s828.photobucket.com/user/bobkap2010/media/EBTengine2.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1

[ebtnut]

Interesting.  Had not seen that photo before.  I can only guess, but it may be that the original cab got damaged and the EBT shops built a new wood cab as a stopgap until a new steel one could be ordered from Baldwin.  I'll query the FEBT board and see if any info turns up.

[bob kaplan]

thanks very much....will be interesting to find out anything.
b

[ebtnut]

Bob:  Turns out I was kind of right - the caption mis-identifies the loco.  It is in fact 4-6-0 No. 4, not No.11.  A couple of the EBT's Ten-wheelers had a big space between the second and third drivers.  In the pic, with the drive gear in shadow, it looks like a trailing truck. 

[bob kaplan]

Ah ha.....you are very astute!....nicely done!.....and that would surely make a great BACHMANN model.
...in large scale of course.
b

[Doneldon]

A couple of the EBT's Ten-wheelers had a big space between the second and third drivers.

ebt-

This is true of many, maybe most ten-wheelers.

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