Brass HO Y6b help

[NW Modeling List]

That's not a pipe.  It's the external reducing valve applied in connection 
with the new intercepting and "booster" valves on the last Y-6bs and 
retrofitted to all the earlier 2100-series engines.

EdKing
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> This Pipe?  See attached.

>

> Gary Rolih

> Cincinnati

>

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>

> Hi.

>

> I am mostly a C&O fan, but certain N&W Steamers ring my bell too :)

>

> I am rebuilding an old PFM Y6b and could use a little help with some

> details.

>

> In some pictures, but not others, of the prototype engine, there is a

> horizontal tube located over the rear cylinder block on the engineers side

> only. Could someone tell me what this thing is, and why it appears 

> sometimes

> and not othertimes ?

>

> The particular model I am rebuilding come to me missing some parts. I have

> remade most of them with better detail. But it was missing the smokestack

> and the N&W used a odd forward canted, bolted base design on the later 

> Y's.

>

> Can anyone tell me where I might find a brass casting of this stack, or a

> way to come up with something close ?

>

> You can see some of my work here:

> http://daveayers.com/Modeling/DTAModels.htm

>

> Thanks,

> Dave Ayers

>

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