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CB&Q VO-1000 9352 |
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Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Baldwin VO-1000 9352 (c/n 70103) presumed at the Baldwin Eddystone, Pennsylvania plant around November 1943, print by H. L. Broadbelt, Chuck Zeiler collection. The CB&Q received a total of 30 VO-1000's from Baldwin, not by choice, but as doled out by the War Production Board during World War II. The CB&Q would have preferred EMD switchers, but EMD was restricted to producing the FT model road diesel and Model 567 diesel power plants for submarines. The VO-1000's were assigned the 9350-9379 number series. They were powered by a De La Vergne four-cycle eight-cylinder in-line diesel prime mover coupled to Westinghouse electrical gear, producing 1000 horsepower, or 60,405 pounds of tractive effort. It was found that the single exhaust stack tended to create back pressure, and as a result, tended to overheat. The CB&Q (and other railroads) solved this problem by installing four stacks on many of its VO-1000's, resulting in a noisier locomotive. Some railroads went so far as to add eight exhaust stacks, a practice Baldwin called, "hot-rodding". |
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11/1/1943 Upload Date: 6/20/2008 11:20:46 AM |
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Eddystone, PA |
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Baldwin Locomotive Works |
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CB&Q VO-1000 9352 |
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Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad VO-1000 9352 (c/n 70103) at the Baldwin Eddystone, Pennsylvania plant around November 1943, print by H. L. Broadbelt, Chuck Zeiler collection. Number 9352 was retired May 1966, likely traded for new power. When approved by the War Production Board, the CB&Q received a total of 30 VO-1000's from Baldwin spanning eight orders, so the serial (construction) numbers were not consecutive, and were assigned the 9350-9379 number series. They were powered by a De La Vergne four-cycle eight-cylinder in-line diesel prime mover coupled to Westinghouse electrical gear, producing 1000 horsepower, or 60,405 pounds of tractive effort. They featured an infinite "air throttle" or electro-pneumatic throttle system as Baldwin preferred to call it. An air valve controlled a resistor which in turn controlled the exciter and generator fields. This produced a "soft start", meaning that even if the throttle was yanked back, the air valve would slowly adjust the resistor to allow the fields to build up. The VO-1000's were concentrated in the Chicago and North Kansas City areas for most of their service life on the CB&Q. |
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11/1/1943 Upload Date: 6/24/2008 10:12:09 AM |
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Eddystone, PA |
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Baldwin Locomotive Works |
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CB&Q VO-1000 9352 |
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Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Baldwin VO-1000 9352 (c/n 70103) presumed at Eddystone, Pennsylvania sometime during November 1943. The CB&Q received 30 Baldwin VO-1000's during World War II, this one was retired in May 1966. A CB&Q Locomotive Assignment Sheet dated June 1965 shows this locomotive assigned to Hannibal, Missouri. Several CB&Q VO-1000's (#'s 9350, 9355, 9361, 9363, 9366, 9367, 9369, 9370, 9371, 9372, & 9379 ) found a second life when they were traded to GE for new power, and were re-sold to the Seaboard Coast Line. |
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11/1/1943 Upload Date: 6/26/2008 1:12:48 PM |
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Eddystone, PA |
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Baldwin Locomotive Works |
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CB&Q VO-1000 9352 |
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Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Baldwin VO-1000 9352 presumed at Eddystone, Pennsylvania sometime in November 1943, print by H. L. Broadbelt, Chuck Zeiler collection. Delivered to the CB&Q around November 1943 (c/n 70103), this was one of 30 VO-1000's the Burlington was allotted by the War Production Board during World War II. It was retired in May 1966. Introduced in 1939, a total of 548 VO-1000's were produced until this model was superseded by the DS-4-4-1000 in 1946. During 1945 Baldwin made several changes to the VO exhaust system design. Originally, the VO's had a single stack, offset to the left in front of the cab. During the first half of 1945, this was changed to two stacks, and later it became four stacks; equally spaced on the VO-1000 and grouped in pairs on the VO-660. In service it had been found that the single stack created excessive heat around the main generator. The two-stack design cured that problem, but heat expansion caused cracks in the exhaust manifold. The four-stack design cured the cracking problem. |
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11/1/1943 Upload Date: 6/27/2008 11:07:56 AM |
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Eddystone, PA |
| Author: |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
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CBQ 9352(VO-1000) |
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