Hi, I´m Christian from Germany,
can anybody discribe and say for which use is the thing behind the doors of the middle(it´s on bouth sides)? And is there any manufactur who make this parts in HO? To see fotos of no.411 www.rr-fallenflags.org .
Thanks!
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/amtk/amtk411abp.jpg
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/amtk/amtk411bbp.jpg
Are you talking about the red circular thing? Looks like some kind of filler cap. It’s also on #412.
Rotor
This is purely a guess but it probably is a railroad added filler from the original owner. I would guess it is either the boiler feedwater tank fill connection or boiler fuel connection for an internal tank of some sort. Strange location for it however.
Wild guess on my part, during the mid fifties UP (along with the SP) converted several classes of diesels to run on bunker C, this required a seperate tank with associated piping, fillers, heater etc. All were converted back within a few years. Never heard of a E units being modified in this manner as specific models were so converted to be Mu’ed with the turbines. Agree the location is odd, in a bunker C conversion the usual procedure was to divide the orginal fuel tank. Of course Amtrak could have performed the conversion, I suspect fuel due to the red painted flange.
Dave
Looking at the pics on the link I posted in one of your other threads you started on this subject, it appears quite a few of the E’s had that filler/fitting on them. But I don’t see a real good pic to tell what exactly it is.
Please don’t make multiple threads asking the same question. It confuses the answers. Perhaps one of the mods can combine the different threads into one? [%-)]
Rotor
http://www.hebners.net/Amtrak/amtE400.html
This site shows a number of Amtraks E units with those filler/fittings on it. Seems like 411 to 420 have them. I wonder if all those are ex-UP?
I’m surprised nobody can definitely ID the thing.
Rotor