For Y6 b fans

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I was looking around on You Tube and came across this video of doubled headed Y6 b dragging coal with yet another Y6 b as a pusher!

Hard to believe none survived.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV8rA3UE-lc&feature=related

Model Y6 b doing the same pull.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iScOZrQ5yU&feature=related

Cuda Ken

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" Herron Rail Video" is the producer of that footage, they have hours and hours of the last days of N&W steam with actual sound, check it out! ITs the best out there!

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There is a Y6 a at the Stl Museum of Trans[opt.

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When I went to STL Museum, my only goal was to see the Big Boy. I got my Big Boy before I got my Y6 b so it was of passing interest while we we there. Plus it started to lighting and wife was freaking out. Had to cut the visit short.

Cuda Ken

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RFD channel has a show called Trains and Locomotives and they just did about 30 minutes of Herrons footage. I recorded it and have watched a couple of times. It is channel 345 on Directv.

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Art’s right. RFD shows it out here on Mondays at 3:00 in the afternoon. I’ve set my DVR to record it automatically, since I’m still teaching at that time, but it’s one GREAT show. They’ve been showing some Herron videos of N&W and Pennsy that are really eye-catching (and eye-popping!).

I’m generally a fan of articulateds with all of the ‘guts’ hanging out (front-hung air pumps, and the ‘plumber’s nightmare’ of Elesco piping), so generally, articulateds like the UP Challengers and Big Boys with their clean, almost ‘sterile’ lines do nothing for me. But I’ve got to admit that there’s something about those N&W Y-6’s that just makes me sit up and admire them, despite their rather ‘clean’ lines. They just look like Power Personified.

Tom

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Oooooooooooo! Nice, nice video. Going to have to clean up the slobber on my keyboard though!

I’ll just second what Tom said. Something about the N&W Y-6’s that just says WOW!

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Pretty much how I felt Ray. My Y6 b has been pulling freight now for the last few days.

I was impressed with the HO version as well. Need to see if there is a up dated video of the bench.

Y6 b Ken