No. 44 modifications to 2nd 44

[engineeral]

I was wanting to put a link to the photo of (x) DAR #44 found at:http://www.images.technomuses.ca/search ... 72&lang=en on the page for the two number 44s there were but there are difficulties.

The above-noted picture has a high-mounted headlight and two large single-piece-of-glass side windows on the cab. The tender has trucks of a style I don't know the name for.

The engine in the picture:(a) DAR0044 Kentville 1942-06-09 James Bowie SGM-B0046.jpg already in our collection looks to be the same as the Science and Technology picture.

The engine in pictures (b)DAR0044e.jpg and (c)DAR0044f.jpg have low-mounted headlights, and multi-pane windows and the engine cylinders are very slanted inwards at the top. The tender has Bettendorf trucks with leaf springs.

The engine in pictures (d) DAR0044g.jpg, (e) DAR0044d.jpg and (f) DAR0044c.jpg has a low-mounted headlight, multi-pane cab windows and less-slanted cylinders.

I suppose it's easy for the railroad to have changed the headlight location and the tender trucks (or the tender), and rebuild the cab with what look to be more-modern, larger windows but changing the cylinders would be very unusual.

So pictures (b) and (c) are one locomotive and pictures (x) and (a) are another locomotive. Are pictures (d), (e) and (f) the same loco as (x) and (a) with a modified cab and different headlight/number boards? If so, at least one picture on the Number 44 is in the wrong gallery (picture (a) ).

Why would they go from single-pane windows to multi-pane windows? And smaller windows?

[stem]

Oh oh.. you've opened up the No. 44 bag of worms. James O'Donnell might have a very reasonable explanation for all this but I have made the same observations and never really came up with satifactory answers on No. 44 and a host of others.

[mountainrail]

Hi;
I think you've got it figured out.
(x) & (a) are the same picture
(b) & (c) are 1st #44
(a), (d), (e) & (f) are 2nd #44

when 2nd 44 came to the DAR in 1942, the headlight was mounted on the top of the boiler, which was a general practice at one time, but not long afterwards was moved to the center of the boiler. Probably the cab was modified with different windows at the same time.

There are two errors in the galleries:
picture (a) (SGM-B0046) is 2nd 44 and should be in 2nd 44 gallery
picture (d) (44g-jpeg) was not named "Poutrincourt". The name was carried on 1st 44, but 2nd 44 was not named.

Very confusing stuff at times.

Regards,
Jim O'Donnell