Visit to 611 and Spencer

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Will is correct, the J’s did not get boards while in revenue service.  They did get A-tank connections and doghouses in Jan-Mar 1958 in anticipation for using them in freight service.

 

Authorization to add coal boards was given for the Class A’s in about June 1955 and for the Y-5/Y-6’s in about September of that year.

 

Bud Jeffries

 

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>From my understanding, the J's did not have coal boards added to their tenders.  Dog houses yes, but not coal boards. 

 

The A's and Y's did have them.

 

The ones on the 611 now were added in Birmingham in 1990 or 1991-ish. 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Will Sadler 

 

 

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Do you happen to know if there are photos of J’s with coal boards?     Thx,  John Garner

 

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Ken:

For a Class J in passenger service to Cincinnati the problem was coal. Probably

a canteen wouldn't have solved the problem.  Cincinnati Union Terminal used

joint facility accounting to charge each road its proportion of expenses.  As NYC,

PRR, CNO&TP and other roads changed to diesel power, N&W began paying a

greater percentage for coal.  The solution ?  Put coal boards on the J tenders,

top off westbound at Prichard (WV), hope the Class J didn't run out of coal on

the Prichard-Cincinnati-Prichard cycle.  There were too many close calls.

                                                                               Harry Bundy    

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