Y-6 leases to Pennsy

Thu Dec 12 12:05:28 EST 2019

Easy answer. The N&W wanted to see how to connect with the Nickel Plate 
someday via the PRR Sandusky Line.

     WJPowers

On 12/12/2019 9:52 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> I would be interested in the circumstances of why Pennsy leased 
> these.  Since the photographer is ID’d as Bob Lorenz with a date, the 
> 1950-51 date is probably the correct date this lease.
>
> Bud Jeffries
>
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> *Subject:* Re: Y-6 leases to Pennsy
>
> That same picture is in */The Keystone/* but dated 1950 and credited 
> to Bob Lorenz.
>
> Roger Huber
>
> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
>
> On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 08:05:23 PM CST, NW Mailing List 
> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
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> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=69378
>
> Ken Miller
> > On Dec 10, 2019, at 6:34 PM, NW Mailing List 
> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Somewhere there is a photo of the 2185 handling a train on the 
> Sandusky line . . .
> >
> > Ed King
> >
> > From: NW Mailing List
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 5:33 PM
> > To: NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List
> > Cc: NW Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: Y-6 leases to Pennsy
> >
> > Roger -  I have my Keystone here as it takes me a couple of weeks to 
> read it through.  The article claims that the following N&W 
> locomotives were leased in the fall of 1950 -  Y6 – 2130, and Y6b - 
> 2182, 2185, 2186, and 2187.  They were returned in early 1951 and were 
> used on the PRR Columbus Division.
> >
> > I learn something new every day!
> >
> > Ron Muldowney
> >
> >
> >
> > From: NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:07 PM
> > To: NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List
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> > Subject: Re: Y-6 leases to Pennsy
> >
> > No, the N&W sold some Y-3s to the Pennsy during WWII but these were 
> leased engines in classes Y6 and Y6b that were leased during 1950-51. 
> I don't have the magazine handy to give you the numbers. There were 
> photos and the writer apparently did his research.
> >
> > Roger Huber
> > Deer Creek Locomotive Works
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 03:03:05 PM CST, NW Mailing List via 
> NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
> <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I believe the Pennsy leased Y-3's, not Y-6's.
> >
> > Jason Maxwell
> >
> >
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> > -------- Original message --------
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> > Date: 12/10/19 2:50 PM (GMT-06:00)
> > To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
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> > Subject: Re: Y-6 leases to Pennsy
> >
> > Roger -  I thought the same thing as I got my Keystone yesterday.  I 
> had known about the Reading, RF&P, and AT&SF leases, but that was the 
> first about the N&W.  It did not make sense to me.
> >
> > Ron Muldowney
> >
> > From: NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 2:49 PM
> > To: N&W Mailing List
> > Cc: NW Mailing List
> > Subject: Y-6 leases to Pennsy
> >
> > I just received my latest issue of The Keystone magazine from the 
> PRRT&HS. There is an interesting article about leased engines the 
> Pennsy used at times. Most interesting was that they leased 5 Y class 
> engines from the N&W during 1950-51. Total news to me. Apparently they 
> leased a Y-6  and 4 Y-6b's which were virtually new engines. This info 
> was new to me and I found it even more amazing the N&W let 3 virtually 
> new Y-6b's leave the property for something like that. Knowing how the 
> Pennsy beat leased engines half to death I would have thought they 
> would let them have older engines. Learn something new every day!
> >
> > Roger Huber
> > Deer Creek Locomotive Works
> >
> >
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