Hello Mitch ! Nice to hear from you . Didn't they use some of those oldies on the BelDel ? D16sb 4-4-0s ? Stay dry up there " down East" in Maine ! Aye-uh ! Henry
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--- In yardbirdtrains@..., "slragent" <slragent@...> wrote:
WOW! Nice about the H6 stored INSIDE at the RRM of PA...H6's and E3's (sister engine, like E6 and H8/9/10) were used on the lighter iron in southern NJ on the PRSL til the late 40's... Funky little PRR steamers. Anyone notice the trucks on the tender with a coil spring/leaf spring combo? A shame Bowser didn't upgrade the H9/E6 like the other ones, but all-in-all they'd've been "discontinued" too after having been priced in the stratosphere for so long.Hi to all you YB guys from up in Maine! How bout an E5!!!!!
--- In yardbirdtrains@..., Doug Kisala <dougkisala@> wrote:
Henry, list,
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I get the digest version of our group's emails, and I can't reply to individual emails out of the digest.
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The photo you posted about is a PRR H6sb.? Late in life (circa the 1940s), some surviving H6sb engines got power reverses which shoved the right hand air tank onto the pilot deck.??
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I have a copy of Edson's PRR All-Time Steam Roster.? Page 319 has information about H6sb 2898.? The engine was built by Baldwin, construction number 26820, in November 1905.? the engine was superheated in August 1914 and sold for scrap in April 1950, making it one of PRR's longer-lived H6sb engines.
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Happily, PRR H6sb 2846 is still with us at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
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To the best of my knowledge, none of PRRs H8/H9s/H10s consolidations (along the lines of Bowser's H9s kit) got pilot mounted air tanks.
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As far as modeling the engine in HO scale, I'm not aware of any good kitbashes, in part because of the engine's 56" drivers.
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In brass, Lambert, Sunset, and Railworks imported models of the engines.? After careful budgeting, I have one of the Lambert models and one of the Railworks models.
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Doug Kisala
