ACL R-1

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Back to the original question of using an R-1 on your model railroad.  The answer is that it’s your railroad and you can use the R-1 any way you want to.  If anyone objects to you using one on an empty hopper train,, just don’t invite them to your layout again.

The R-1s were not satisfactory locomotives.  their counterbalancing was so poorly done that they could not be used in the passenger services for which they were intended.  So the 80=inch drivered machines were used in fast freight service.

They were good-looking engines, though.

- Ed King

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Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 6:25 PM
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Subject: Re: ACL R-1

The short answer is no.  ACL R-1 class of 12 locomotives had scrapping dates of December 1951 and June 1952 according to Prince's ACL book. According to Col Jeffries book all ten N&W Y4 locomotives were equipped with the R-1 tenders in 1953. I don't know if N&W bought all the tenders or just 10 of them. I  can't remember the source, but I did read oncd that the tenders arrived in worse shape than N&W expected.

--Rick Morrison
  Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:49 PM
  Subject: ACL R-1

  Hello all, 
  Do any of the old heads know if an ACL R-1 4-8-4 ever pulled a N&W passenger train on  the N&W, also when the N&W bought the tenders of these engines were they delivered still attached to the engines.  I have a H0 R-1 and am looking for an excuse to run it on my N&W layout circa 1953.
  Richard Hood
  From a turnip patch in England


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