Water stops

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Thanks Ed and Jim!

Jim Brewer

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:44 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Don't know about freight trains; but passenger trains at Bluefield station
> stopped accurately enough that water could be taken without uncoupling. I
> did see a Virginian train detouring through Bluefield (wreck on Vgn.) take
> water. They did uncouple, but that was because the Virginian tender did not
> allow the downspout to pivot without striking the coal bunker. So the
> locomotive uncoupled and ran a little ahead, they rotated the downspout,
> the locomotive backed up and they lowered the downspout. I also have a
> vague memory that the water plug at Richlands was spaced so that two locos
> coupled together could take water at the same time.
>
> Jim Nichols
>
>
> On Monday, October 29, 2018 9:51 AM, NW Mailing List <
> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>
> During steam operations when a locomotive was going to take water on the
> road, was it the usual practice to uncouple the locomotive from the rest of
> the consist in order to position the locomotive at the water plug?
>
> Also, approximately how long would it take to top off the water in a
> tender? I understand the answer is variable given the capacity of any given
> tender and how much water was required to fill it up.
>
> I'd like to incorporate this type of prototype operation in my model
> railroad operating scheme.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim Brewer
> Glenwood MD
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