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(erielack) HO K-5 HO Erie #2922 from Jersec City in 1929

 
In a message dated 2/22/2007 4:47:17 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
Hhaines_@_aol.com writes:

I have  no listings of images of #2922 in any of my books.  



I hate it when I am not feeling well and make statements like  that. 
My fever was worse than I thought. I have several images of  Erie 2922 in 
books listed below--and many on this list may also. While looking  this up, I 
discovered that K-5s also double headed with K-4As, Berkshires (S-3s,  2-8-4s), 
Mikados (N-2s), Santa Fes (R-2s, 2-10-2s) and possibly others. The ERIE  USRA 
HEAVY PACIFICS book by D. Biernacki available through the Erie Lackawanna  
Historical Society is an excellent source of information how the locomotive  
evolved over time, but not the only source for images.
 
A few general things about Erie 2922:
It was built by  Baldwin in June 1919, Builder’s Number 51931, as part of a 
USRA order of 20 USRA  Heavy Pacifics. (page 92, Railroad History No 131, 
Autumn 1974.) Erie 2922 was  scrapped at Luria Bros. of Bufaflao NY, 24 April 1950.
 
As-delivered dimensions are given on page 2, modifications by  1939 on page 
20, Biernacki.
There were three 3-inch Consolidated safety  valves on the unit when new that 
were replaced in 1931 with two 3.5-inch), p4,  13 Biernacki)
The Cole-Scoville built up trailing truck was used throughout  its service
The cab roof had gutters (in addition to gutters over the cab  windows) that 
were eliminated between 1941 and 1942. 
High speed URSA tender  trucks were replaced with Commonwealth drop equalizer 
type some time late  1931.
 
Erie 2922 mostly worked west of Hornell after Automatic Train  Stop (ATS) was 
applied to many other K-5 and K-5As in 1926.  Apparently,  2922 received ATS 
by early 1942 or possibly earlier as its original tender  was replaced for a 
16,500 gallon tender in early 1940. 
 
Also around the late 1920s, the original tenders had their  coal capacity 
increased from 10- to 20-tons.
 
The original cross-compound air compressor was replaced with  an New York No. 
5 air compressor (that itself was replaced by Westinghouse  cross-compound 
compressor in 1936.
 
By June 1931, 2922 received 
- -Received an Elesco feed water  heater, with exhaust steam pipe penetrating 
smokebox from the top of cylinders,  condensate return pipe running diagonally 
around right side of smokebox.  
- -The free-swinging bell was rigidly mounted with an internal air ringer. The  
brass bell appears to have been replaced for a painted version during WW II.  
- -Smoke deflectors were applied on top rear of cab
The steam turrets/  valves were enclosed/ shrouded with sheet metal, and 
later (1941-ish) a larger  box (that was higher than the cab roof) was added.
Sand box traps replaced  with air actuated traps
The Raggonet reverse gear was changed to Precision  gear
 
 Photos of Erie 2922 include
 
Erie 2922, ¾ front engineer’s side with mail train, Akron  Ohio, 1936.  Page 
47, ERIE STEAM LOCOMOTIVES AND TRAINS: Photographed in  Northern New Jersey, 
1933-1937, Robert K. Durham. 1995. ELHS
 
Erie 2922 is shown as a ¾ overhead view of fireman’s side with  12-car milk 
train, bridge over the Delaware River at Mill Rift PM,  May  1929 (w Elesco 
heater). Page 115 top, THE ERIE RAILROAD STORY. Paul Carleton,  Carleton 
Railbooks, Dunellon, FL. 1988 (or page 214, THE ERIE LACKAWANA STORY,  Paul Carleton, 
1974.)
 
Erie 2922 on Train No.5, Meadville PS on 25 Aug 1936,  Fireman’s side ¾ front 
shows Pyle headlight without visor, smaller smokebox  door, Elesco feedwater 
heater with piping as below, shrouded safety valves,  pneumatically activated 
internal bell ringer, generator is still on engineer’s  side, front of cab, 
Westinghouse cross-compound air pumps on fireman’s side,  blow-off valves have 
been piped back to under the cab, and stoker exhaust behind  trailing truck 
below fireman’s side of cab. Locomotive has retained original  USRA-style pilot 
steps, but short running board is not yet raised for mechanical  lubricator 
even though drifting valves have been added to top of  cylinders.  
tender has sides raised (to 20-tons coal), Commonwealth  drop-equalizer type 
4-wheel trucks and strap steel for front tender step.  Centered Erie diamond 
with serif script.
Cab still has gull gutters, but  smoke deflectors added
Page 14, top, ERIE USRA HEAVY PACIFICS. D. Biernacki,  1992. Erie Lackawanna 
Historical Society, Columbia, NJ. 
 
Erie 2922  on 1st section of train No. 2, Lanesboro PA,  Labor Day, 1 sep 
1941 (1 RPA, 9 “2200” coaches.  View is ¾ front fireman’s  side, shows cab still 
with gutters, but now with raised short running board and  2-sets of box-pok 
drivers (main and rear), stoker exhaust now routed to top of  boiler in a 
muffler, fireman’s side still shows cab-window/door access to  running board, and 
USRA pilot steps are replaced. Larger 16,500-gallon 6-wheel  t2-truck tender 
with ERIE in sans serif centered on coal bunker (that it  received in early 
1940). Page 30, top, Biernacki, 1992.
 
Erie 2922, on 5-car “Snow Train” (2 Stillwells and an 1100 in  view) on 
Newburgh Branch at Salisbury Mills NY from Jersey City, 1 Feb 1942. ¾  front view 
of engineers side after Pearl Harbor Day shows cab gutters removed,  cab front 
sealed, generator no longer on engineer’s side, steam whistle is  tilted, 
nice clean (shiny) boiler jacket with continuous handrail-conduit (at  least on 
the engineer’s side), ATS applied (may have been earlier), shrouded  valve 
cover is taller than the cab roof, air lines are stacked under the running  board, 
all drivers are box-box, and bell has changed to a painted steel.   
Page 30, bottom
 
Erie 2922 did not retain the 16,500-gallon tender for long  (just a couple of 
years) before the 10,000-gallon 20-ton tender was returned  (for use in 
commuter and branch line service, p42, Biernacki).
 
There probably would have been more shots had it gone to NJ  commuter service 
a bit earlier in life. Erie’s purchase of the passenger EMD  F-3s in 1947 
bumped the K-5s into other duties including milk trains, other  long-distance 
passenger trains, express freight, and commuter service. Some K-5s  and K-5As 
served as back-up locomotives for the Eire Limited and Lake Cities on  the west 
end until the arrival of the EMD E-8s in 1951.  Erie 2922 did not  last that 
long, finally meeting the torch in August 1950. Erie 2922 was not  rebuilt in 
the 1940-42 rebuild program as sister 2923 had been (only one of 3  K-5s in that 
program, and also an Eastern-end loco having received ATS in 1926). 
 
Erie 2921, at Meadville in 1927. Page 9, Biernacki.
 
And there was more detail for the train, Think about it (the list from Erie  
Trackside with Robert Collins)--
The K5 would be pulling:
 
Two Athearn-bashed "monitor" roof 70-foot heavyweight baggage express cars  
representing Class C-17 by Pullman (#569-573, 1928) with doors seven feet and  
six feet directly across or Class C-18 from the Standard Steel Car Company  
(#574-597, also 1928) with similar sized doors diagonally across.
or two ELHS  C-9 wood with steel underframe express cars) Either way, both in 
Eire  green.
 
One heavyweight AHM/Rivarossi Erie green RPO representing class G-12 by  
Pullman in Chicago, December 1928 (#600-603), page 8, DeYoung and DelVecchio  
2001. (one-sides’ dimensions are off by a few inches, but length and door space  
from the other (mail) end was OK. Trucks may need to be changed.) 
 
Two Branchline 2200s for coaches (the "NYC" coach) (or add air conditioning  
and no ventilator beaks for the 1934-to-1948 versions) in Erie  green

One “chair car” from splicing two Athearn monitor-roof  coaches to make a 
2206-2211  (pre-1100) chair car from the Jay Held school  of kit-bash,
 
One Walthers heavyweight diner (either undecorated and lettered for Erie or  
Santa Fe with changed name and re-numbered to 939-947 for the  
Pullman-constructed 1925 cars, as viewed in “Route of the Erie Limited,” books  by Carleton, 
and others (page 11, DeYoung and DelVecchio 2001). 
 
A single (or sometimes two) select heavy-weight Pullman (depending on year,  
12-1-1, 8-1-2, or others), that would be in Pullman or Erie green, and  finally
 
An ELHS long-distance Stillwell, in Erie green



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