N&W caboose project Spring Mills Depot status

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Now you've done it, Phil!
I have been buying up Y6b's with plans to either cut down the boiler,
and/or create a 3D model/print of whatever I need to change it over.
Can anyone point out differences, besides the feedwater heater and air
pumps, and the shorter smokebox ?
Which locos had forward leaning stacks - all Y6 variants, or just the "b"
It seems like a pretty do-able conversion?
I've overlaid a Y6b blueprint over an Y6a image
What glaring items am I overlooking?

Definitely in over his head,
Mike Rector

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On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 6:37 PM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <
nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> I wish the companies that produce HO-scale Y6b models would consider
> offering the Y6a, since there would be a lot of parts/drive mechanism that
> could be common to both.
> While the Y6b was the zenith of steam, a Y6a still exists (2156). Seems
> like
> little effort would be expended to offer a model of an existing engine,
> much
> as was done for 611 and 1218.
> Phil Miller
>
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>
> Anybody got any guesses why no model manufacturer hasn't offered a
> reasonably accurate, plastic, steam-era N&W caboose in the past 50 years?
>
> Seems like they would only sell about a 1000 of them in the first year.
>
> I can't even remember how many SMD cabs I reserved. But it was/is a lot.
>
> John Garner, Newport VA
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