Restoration candidates

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The Y's werent made to go fast, they were made to produce huge amount of tractive effort at low to medium speeds. But in regards to them not being suitable for excursion service, I think Matt is thinking "fast main line" excursion service, IE: the Southern Piedmont main or Central division, some of the other high speed lines. There's plenty of secondary mains where it would do just fine because the maximum authorized speeds are not terribly fast anyway. Think about the N&W Winston-Salem district, any of the Branches off the Pokey, most of the line from Asheville to Salisbury, the West Slope, MGA, dare I say Saluda, heck the Pokey main itself Eastbound most trains crawl from roughly Crozier to Falls Mills... plenty of places to run it on the NS system where you wont hold things up. 

-Troy Nolen, Tampa, FL.

---- NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote: 

> There is a BL on LS&I #33 in Jerry Jacobson's collection. That locomotive was restored several years ago. It (the BL) was working  back when she was running on the Hocking Valley scenic back when I was young enough to think shoveling cinders out of her smoke box was fun. 

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> Regarding 2156, I would think its main drawback to restoration would be that it's too slow to be suitably used as an excursion engine.  Dad saw the occasional Y go through Circleville, OH (Scioto District) and thought they seemed slow back in the early '50s. 

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> Matt Goodman

> Columbus, Ohio

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> On Dec 7, 2013, at 7:04 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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> I think the 2156 restoration issue has "other" problems and they aren't mechanical in nature.

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>   1. Steam engines being restored (NW Mailing List)

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> As I read about the various steam engines being restored, or planning to be, one thing I noticed is that all the possible candidates had one thing in common.  NONE had a Worthington BL style feed water heater.  Are they really that difficult to restore?  I know that towards the end of steam on the N&W, the Y3's being used in yard service had them removed due to parts and maintenance issues.  Is that one of the main reasons that 2156 isn't being considered?  T&P has 610 with an Elesco, Most have Worthington SA style FWH, but I haven't seen ONE BL style on a restored loco.

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> Mark Lindsey

> Stuck in the 1930's

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