Y6B 2171

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Ed,

You are right about the different stack talks of the Y's vis a vis the A's, but as best as I recall the sounds from both locos blended in a caphony that echoed off the roundhouse wall and other objects so that it wasn't obvious which sound came from which locomotive.  Anyway, what I remember mainly is the different exhaust angles of the two loco classes.

I don't know whether it was necessary for the Y's to start out of West Yard in simple, but I think by the time they came by the roundhouse they were above the speed for simple operation.

Gordon Hamilton
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  Gordon,

  If the locomotives were showing smoke and or steam as they passed wouldn't the difference in each locomotive's stack talk also be  give-a-way?  Wouldn't the front and rear engine's 2 separate exhausts from the "simple " Class-A per rotation (with the 2 engines seldom being in sync) be distinguishable from the single exhaust of the "compound" Y-Class per rotation (rear high pressure engine cylinders exhausting to the front lower pressure engine cylinders which than exhausted through the smoke box and out the stack - unless operating in simple) ?  Or   - When starting the trains like this did the Y begin by working in simple?

   

  Best regards,

  Ed Painter - Narrows, VA - living in Russellville, AR

   

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  This slanted stack discussion reminds me of a small experience that I had the summer of 1956 when I worked at the Shaffers Crossing roundhouse before I was so rudely drafted into the Army for a couple of years.  Whenever an eastbound coal train would pull out of the west yard and accelerate up the slight grade leading to the 24th Street underpass with a Y6 leading an A, a lot of the work in the roundhouse would stop momentarily as a number of the men would rush to the open windows to watch the awesome display of power.  Sometimes there would be a train standing on the track between the roundhouse and the track on which the coal train was departing, pretty well blocking the view of the eastbound except for the tops of the locomotives.  That was when I discovered that the Y6 exhausts were angled forward whereas the A exhausts went straight up.  So, without being able to see the locomotives themselves, I could confirm from the exhausts that the Y6 was leading the A.

   

  Gordon Hamilton

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    Bud,

     

    Thanks.....You know, after I sent the email I had some second thoughts and wished that I had validated the slanted stack comment before I sent it.  Obviously I should have done so.  Thanks for correcting my error.

     

    Ed Painter;  Narrows, VA currently Russellville, AR 

     

     

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    Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 10:26 AM
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    Ed,

     

    The Y6 and Y6a all had the slanted stack just like the Y6b.

     

    Bud Jeffries

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      The Y-6b's most distinguishing feature compared to Y-6's and Y-6a's was the Worthington SA Feedwater Heater on top of the smokebox in front or the (Y-6b only) slanted forward smoke stack. 

       

       

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      Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 3:58 PM
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      The Y6a has two air pumps on the engineer's side, with a BL feedwater heater on the fireman's side .  The Y6b has an air pump on each side.
       
      James Jarvis
       
      > Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:38:13 -0400
      > To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
      > Subject: RE: Y6B 2171
      > From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
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      > I too saw them in 1973. And while my slides are marked "Virginia Scrap 
      > Iron", United works for me. Attached are some photos.
      > How can one distinguish between a Y6 and Y6b in the state these locos 
      > were in?
      > 
      > 
      > Don Trettel
      > 
      > [Moderator]
      > See images at following:
      > http://nwhs.org/wiki/tiki-browse_image.php?imageId=69
      > http://nwhs.org/wiki/tiki-browse_image.php?imageId=70
      > http://nwhs.org/wiki/tiki-browse_image.php?imageId=71
      > 
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