BLI Y-6 wishes

[NW Modeling List]

I can’t speak to the HO models, but the N scale ones had such large flanges the drivers needed to be smaller in order to approach overall scale dimensions within the shell. Real pizza cutters. 
John Samples

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> On Apr 23, 2022, at 7:24 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> What's the story behind the Rivarossi driver being undersized? Did they reuse the driver from another engine or something?  
> Or is it just that models in general were just less accurate back in the 60's when they introduced it?
> Mike Rector
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>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 5:01 PM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>> I’ll join the list of those having suggested BLI do an Y-6/Y-6a. If I recall correctly, I emailed them shortly after they announced their Y-6b.
>> 
>> I noted that the Y-6’s and Y-6a’s outnumbered the B’s by nearly 3-to-1 on the N&W. And living about 15 miles from the prototype 2156 at the time, I even volunteered to measure/photograph it for them.
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>> Their emailed answer to me was, boiled down, thanks but no thanks. I took some solace in their at least getting the driver diameter correct, unlike the ancient Rivarossi model. LOL.
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>> Andre Jackson
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>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 3:31 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> Certainly Broadway LTD has not been hampered in producing Pennsylvania RR locomotives.  It seems like a new PRR release every month or two.  Many years ago at the NMRA National Train Show in Philadelphia I spoke with a representative of Broadway.  They had already produced the Y6b and I suggested they could use the same mechanism and do the Y-5, Y-6 and Y-6a boilers.  I know Harold Davenport also suggested this to them but obviously nothing has come of it.
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>> It is my understanding that the PRRT&HS Modeling committee gathers together all the necessary documentation and travels to Florida to meet with the folks at Broadway to promote a new locomotive.  I have even heard a representative of the factory in China is often in attendance. Of course, it seems like anything with "PRR" on it sells well.
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>> Jim Brewer
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