The 1968 holiday rush is already underway on November 2, as Chicago Burlington & Quncy S2 9300 drags a long cut of mail storage and express cars out of Denver Union Station. In the early 1940s as wartime traffic burgeoned, the Q, desperate for more switchers, turned to the War Production Board, which assigned it two of the 1000-hp Alco switchers. Over the following year, the Board, which oversaw manufacturing and production, diverted two more groups of S2s from Utah copper hauler Bingham & Garfield to the Q, bringing the total to nine. After the war, all found their way to Denver where they almost instantly swept steam switchers from the yards. Tough little engines, they remained the only Alco diesels Burlington ever bought, but their distinctive turbocharged sound, like running the fingers up the teeth of a comb, remained a fixture of Denver railroading until they were traded to General Electric in 1969
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