Visit to 611 and Spencer

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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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