Y3 Proto 2000

Tue May 5 10:23:55 EDT 2020

Dumb question of the day - What's a canteen? please

Walter Davis

On 5/5/2020 8:26 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> I do not know if the Y3 used canteens but on my 12 or so I do use a 
> canteen. The reason for that is the pickups on the locomotives it self 
> is poor and looses contact in time. I have wired a Bachmann canteen in 
> parallel that solves this problem.
>
> Doing this is must if you will use sound as most sound units have 
> little tolerance for bad pickup and it spoils the mood. I use 
> soundtrax decoders with the capacitor included with great results.
>
> Mike Ritschdorff
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> *Subject:* Re: Y3 Proto 2000
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> Does any know if the N&W Y-3's ever used Canteens?
>
> I have three of the P2K  Y-3's, hope get DCC sound installed this year.
>
> W.A.Coleman
>
>> On May 2, 2020 at 12:47 PM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List 
>> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Don. I couldn't figure that out and assumed it was some sort 
>> of abbreviation or description I'd never head of. Makes sense.
>>
>> Roger Huber
>> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, May 2, 2020, 10:18:58 AM CDT, NW Mailing List 
>> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>>
>> And “rwnswe” is “tender” with the left hand shifted one key to the 
>> left on the keyboard.
>>
>> Don
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>> *Sent:* Saturday, May 02, 2020 5:21 AM
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>> *Subject:* Re: Y3 Proto 2000
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>> Roger -
>>
>> The N&W had two varities of 18000 gallon tenders.  The type modeled 
>> for the Y-3s is the earlier version.  A later version had a cast 
>> underframe that served as the bottom of the cistern; it was somewhat 
>> shorter than the earlier version.  Both versions carried 26 tons of 
>> coal.  The 16000 version modeled carried 23 tons; N&W had several 
>> hundred of these tenders.
>>
>> The next step up was the 22000 gallon job which also carried 26 tons 
>> of coal and made its debut behind the Y-5s.
>>
>> Hope this helps -
>>
>> EdK
>>
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>> *Sent:*Friday, May 01, 2020 9:47 PM
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>> *Subject:*Re: Y3 Proto 2000
>>
>> Ed,
>>
>> I have a hard time making ID on some of the N&W tenders. What is an 
>> 18k rwnswe tender?
>>
>> Roger Huber
>>
>> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
>>
>> On Friday, May 1, 2020, 07:36:35 PM CDT, NW Mailing List 
>> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
>>
>> I have a 2005 with footboard front end, no bridgepipe and 18K 
>> rwnswe.  This is correct for the 2005 which was in yard service at 
>> Portsmouth.
>>
>> I have a 2024 with road pilot, bridgepipe and 18K tender.  This 
>> engine worked the Roanoke-Bluefield local freight and I photographed 
>> it a couple of times at Walton.
>>
>> I have a 2037 (the first Y-3 I ever saw) with a road pilot, no 
>> bridgepipe, and thanks to a tender swap with the Rev. Jim Nichols, a 
>> 16K tender.  I saw the 2037 working a mine run on the Dry Fork.
>>
>> Hope this helps . . .
>>
>> - Ed King
>>
>> *From:*NW Mailing List
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>> *Sent:*Friday, May 01, 2020 10:49 AM
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>> *To:*NW Mailing List
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>> *Subject:*Y3 Proto 2000
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>> Re: Proto 2000 Y3.  I checked my two models.  They are both lettered. 
>> 2005 has the original Y3 front set up and with foot board pilot. 2024 
>> came with bridge pipe front end and road pilot.  I remember 
>> contacting Life-Like about buying a road pilot for 2005. They sent me 
>> the part at no charge. Unfortunately after Walther's acquired 
>> Life-Like, they wanted nothing to do with steam models. So finding a 
>> bridge pipe part would not be easy.
>>
>> Attached is a photo of 2010 in Hagerstown original front end and road 
>> pilot. Photo by Charles Summers.  Charlie worked as a farm hand.  On 
>> his weekends off he would take rail photos with a simple box camera.  
>> Before his death he gave his negatives to a friend of his. 2010 was 
>> one of his better efforts.  Too bad he didn't have a better camera.  
>> I have scanned what there was of N&W, dating from the late 1930's up 
>> to the end of steam on the Shenandoah Division.
>>
>> --Rick Morrison
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