--- In [email protected], "up148" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hey Ed,
>
> I've heard about the NYC track pans and always wanted to see a
movie of one in action. <snip>
There are some movie's out there Butch, but David Sweetland's
book "NYC Steam In Color" has track pan action photos at both
Marshall, MI and Stryker, OH. One has a wooden water tank, the other
steel. The water tank and boiler house at Stryker are still there,
albeit surrounded by grown trees and on private property. The pans
are long gone but some stonework remains. I doubt you'll find
Stryker on the map as it was a railroad control point not an actual
town, but the pans were located only a few miles east of Edgerton,
OH, off US Highway 6.
Edgerton was a great place to photograph trains at speed. I caught
13 trains in 3 hours on Contrail's last weekend, May 29, 1999.
BTW Ed, the dreaded Pennsy also used track pans. I think the NYC's
real innovation was not the track pans, but installing vent over-
flows in tenders so water could be taken on at high speeds. Without
these devices (note all the large pipes along the bottom sides of NYC
Hudson and Niagara tenders), taking on water at high speeds would
have literally blown up the tender!
Jim K.
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