Roller Bearings and the Y6-b

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 I'd like to throw another possible reason - roller bearing rods have large hubs and may have interfered with the clearance limits on  the lower part of the N&W's load gauge.  With the Y6's 58" drivers and 32" stroke, there's not a lot of room  for a roller bearing rod hub.  IIRC, load gauge interference was a problem with the P&LE's 2-8-4's and they had conventional solid bearing rods and 63" drivers.

Dave Stephenson


    On Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 9:58:26 PM EDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
 
Bill 

      If you’re a Trainorders member (I am not)you can go back and read Wes Camp’s writing on this subject recently . Very interesting  There were

a lot of reasons why probably it never happened . 


Larry Evans

  
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