Y3 Proto 2000

Tue May 5 14:26:26 EDT 2020

Thanks, Walter Davis

On 5/5/2020 1:46 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Canteen is also known as an A tank, aux tender or cistern which was an 
> extra water tender along with the regular tender
>
> Mike
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> *Subject:* Re: Y3 Proto 2000
>
> 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
>>
>> 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> <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
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>>> On Saturday, May 2, 2020, 10:18:58 AM CDT, NW Mailing List 
>>> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> And “rwnswe” is “tender” with the left hand shifted one key to the 
>>> left on the keyboard.
>>>
>>> Don
>>>
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>>> *Subject:* Re: Y3 Proto 2000
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
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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
>>>
>>> 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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