You could name this photo "U Boats on Display" Nice pic!!
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FRISCO - a site for sore Missouri eyes! Great catch!
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Great photo with all the power and nice to see the U25Bs all together. Frisco never had U23Bs though, the 859 and 838 are examples of the U30B. The doors on the engine compartment give it away with eight tall doors. A U23B would have six tall doors for a twelve cylinder engine. 423 was captured on film by me in 2003 at Wichita Kansas still in BN green and still with here mars light intact, two months later i got her again without the mars light still in green.
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Another one of the "Where's my time machine" photos. Great shot!
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Almost hard to look at this shot knowing what this scene looks like today with no diesel shop.
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This view is from the Kansas Street expressway, looking west/northwest. Once I drove by there at night when one of the cylindrical roof vents you see atop the right side of the building had caught on fire. Not sure what caused it, but the blaze was a spectacular sight. Thank you for the memories, Don.
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Engines idling for long periods of time can produce sparks. Roof vents located over operating diesel engines, especially ones with worn piston rings, do put out oily vapors which would tend to be drawn up the vents. If enough sparks are drawn up the vent then the vent can catch fire. The ex- C. & O. round house located at Silver Grove, Ky. did burn to the ground taking several diesels and the Chessie Steam Special's locomotive with it. The sides of the steamer's coal tender were warped so badly that it was said to resemble a "Coca Cola" bottle. The cause was claimed to be as stated above. I once observed a C. & O. EMD diesel idling on one of the outside turntable tracks at Russell, Ky. which was very oil coated on and around it's exhaust stack. It would catch fire and burn until the fire would burn itself out, then more oil would build up and the cycle would repeat itself. No one seemed concerned about this as every one went on with their work. I concluded that they were letting this happen because they were waiting for a space in the shop to become available and were not wanting to have to restart this unit, so were just letting it run.
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