Date of Y4 Tender change

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Dave:  At this date, I have no idea, as the question never occured to me at the 
time I saw them. They were in a storage area just east of the shops alongside 
the main line. My mental picture is that the cistern end was closest to me, and 
I don't think of them as being coupled together at that time. I think they were 
distributed on more than one track.  But you are talking about how they were 
transported to Roanoke - right? So your guess is as good as mine. The easy way 
would have been to couple them front to front with a drawbar and thus there 
would be a coupler on each end of the pair. But that was not necessarily how it 
was done, since they did not come directly from the ACL. They were bought from 
an outfit named "Georgia Car" or something like that. So they probably had 
already been transported once from the scrapper to Georgia Car, and it may be 
that they put couplers in the drawbar pocket from the beginning. I don't know! 
But I do know that would have been  possible because all the auxillary tanks had 
such a coupler applied to the front end when they were rebuilt from the 16k 
tenders.      Jim Nichols




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Jim,
How would you guess that they may have been coupled together?
Did they have a temporary drawbar sort of thing on the front end?
Do you recall if they were all head to tail or just random orientation?
 
Thanks,
Dave Willis
(blt 1962, c/n 4)
 
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:48:01 -0700
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1948 is too early. 1953 would be about right. I can remember seeing the tenders 
at east end shops just after they bought them. I was riding home from college on 
No. 3 and spotted them as we were coming into Roanoke. That would have to be 
sometime between the fall of 1952 and the spring of 1956. So....1953 sounds 
about right.    Jim Nichols




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Subject: Date of Y4 Tender change

Listers,
 
This question is prompted from my "Norfolk & Western's Y-Class Articulated Steam 
Locomotives" book:
 
What year were the ex-ACL tenders placed behind the Y4's?
Page 62 says 1948 while pages 63 and 65 say 1953.
 
Thanks,
Dave Willis
(blt 1962, c/n 4)

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