Y-3 at Bluefield

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At 12:11 AM 8/19/05, you wrote:

>That's a new Y-3 on the Bluefield turntable.  Bristol's turntable, like 

>most N&W turntables, was a deck girder bridge.  Crewe and Bluefield had 

>thru truss turntables.  This is Bluefield, from the looks of the roundhouse.

>

><http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/F1/NS5878.JPG>http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/F1/NS5878.JPG


  Notice that there is only one air pump on the smokebox front (hidden by 
the truss). I had been wondering if the N&W Y-3s were delivered with one 
pump or two.

David Thompson