Modifying Y models; Was Re: N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

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As with any project, it depends how detailed you want to make it, and
what era you are doing. Or in the case of N&W steam, what year.
The smokebox length, feedwater heater, and air pumps are the key
identifying features, the things that when you take a quick glance at
the model make you say, "oh, that's a Y6, not a Y6b." The first Y6b's
as built had a smaller, oval smokebox door. The Y6's and Y6a's either
all or mostly got the larger slanted stack and the streamlined tender.
You could change out these details on a Y6b to make an as built Y6 or
Y6a. 
Backdating a Y6b I believe is more manageable than updating a Proto
Y3. Not only would you need a new tender, but you would have to
install the covered sand pipes, the pipe connecting the cab and the
steam dome which divides the rear sand dome, the slant cab, and the
outside bearing journals on the pilot and trailing trucks. The basic
construction seems similar enough that I have considered placing the
top half of a Rivarossi Y6b boiler onto a Proto Y3 chassis, but that
still doesn't solve the pilot and trailing truck issues. Being diecast
metal instead of plastic, the Broadway/Precision Craft Y6b would
probably be unrealistic for most modelers to modify.
Col Jeffries' Giant Of Steam, N&W's Magnificent Mallets, and NJ
International's USRA 2-8-8-2's are probably the 3 best books for
comparing the differences in the Y classes, and when they were
modified. 
Marty Flick

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Subject: Re: N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

 Now you've done it, Phil! I have been buying up Y6b's with plans to
either cut down the boiler, and/or create a 3D model/print of whatever
I need to change it over. Can anyone point out differences, besides
the feedwater heater and air pumps, and the shorter smokebox ? Which
locos had forward leaning stacks - all Y6 variants, or just the "b" It
seems like a pretty do-able conversion? I've overlaid a Y6b blueprint
over an Y6a image What glaring items am I overlooking? 
 Definitely in over his head, Mike Rector 

 On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 6:37 PM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List
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  I wish the companies that produce HO-scale Y6b models would consider
 offering the Y6a, since there would be a lot of parts/drive mechanism
that
 could be common to both.
 While the Y6b was the zenith of steam, a Y6a still exists (2156).
Seems like
 little effort would be expended to offer a model of an existing
engine, much
 as was done for 611 and 1218.
 Phil Miller

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 Anybody got any guesses why no model manufacturer hasn't offered a
 reasonably accurate, plastic, steam-era N&W caboose in the past 50
years?

 Seems like they would only sell about a 1000 of them in the first
year.

 I can't even remember how many SMD cabs I reserved. But it was/is a
lot.

 John Garner, Newport VA
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