475 out of the shops at Strasburg

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Bud - 

They needed the boiler tube pilots on the Abingdon Branch.  They hit an occasional rock up there that would have eaten up a footboard.

BTW – the 382 and 429 were different.  One had side boiler checks and the other the double top check.  The 382 had outside steam pipes to the cylinders and the 429 still had her inside steam passages.

Engine crews said the 382 was the better engine, but I can’t see that those two differences would have done the trick.

Best - 

EdK

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Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 11:28 AM
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Ed,

 

I just went back through my photo collection of the last 15 M’s in service and you’re right, the 382 and 429 retained the boiler tube pilots.  The 475 in 1952 had the footboard pilot and in 1954 had the boiler tube type.  All others only had the footboards.

 

The first time I saw a centered headlight on an M was in about 1949 when the 375 arrived in Radford just out of the shops and freshly painted.  It made an impression me when I first saw it.

 

Bud Jeffries

 

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Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 9:32 AM
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Bud - 

 

The two superheated Ms at Bristol used on the Abingdon Branch kept the boiler tube pilots until they were retired..

 

The 475 was sent to Bristol in the summer of 1956 to help celebrate the Bristol Centennial.  I don’t remember it ever being in Bristol to work before it was “backdated”.  

 

I remember that Bristol got maybe the last M with Stephenson Valve Gear – the 421.  I believe it was the first M I saw that had the centered headlight.  When I first saw it in the roundhouse with the centered headlight I thought it was a Southern engine.  The 421 had slipped a back-up eccentric and only gave three exhausts moving backward – chug-chug-chug-blank, chug-chug-chug-blank . . .

 

Ed King

 

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Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 9:07 AM

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Subject: RE: 475 out of the shops at Strasburg

 

>From the mid 50s to the end, the last 15 M’s all had the footboards and nine had the centered headlight.  Those with the high headlight to the end were 422, 433, 444, 449, 451 and 477.

 

The 475 was an exception since it had a centered headlight and footboards in the 1950s until it was redone in a historic image in 1956 then receiving a boiler tube pilot, high headlight, balloon stack, etc. Changing the headlight position occurred not all at once but over time; for example 382 had the high leadlight in 1955 but it was changed soon after to the centered position until retired in December 1957.

 

Bud Jeffries

 

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Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 10:11 PM
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I remember several Ms with centered headlights in the mid 1950s including the 375, 382, 396, 405 429, 433 etc.

 

So 475 might be odd, to you, but it’s not un-authentic.  

 

- Ed King

 

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Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 3:51 PM

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Subject: 475 out of the shops at Strasburg

 

Unfortunately, they removed the top of smokebox headlight and put it in the center, removing its number plate.  They also took away its boiler tube pilot for a step pilot.  Its not the classic 475 anymore.

 

 

 

 

Mark Lindsey
Stuck in the 1930’s

 

 

 

 


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