Ed, > While working on my layout this morning, I determined there was a > suitable location on the mainline for a famous NYC track pan. <snip> > Anyway, hoped you enjoyed this little bit of modeling trivia. Got any > of yours to share?
Don't forget to have several mangled scoops layout around at the next depot. If the scoop wasn't raised in time, it had a tendency to bend in ways it wasn't designed to when it hit the ties after the pan (the ends of the pan sloped to help lift the pan, but if the crew didn't get the scoop lifted soon enough, it would hit ties and roadbed). Not many derailments seem to have occurred from this, but several platforms at the next stop were destroyed from the mangled scoop hitting them (fortunately, not at speed). There are quite a few photos of nearby Millersburg, IN with bent scoops laying beside the depot, and at least one photo showing part of the loading platform damaged from a bent scoop hitting it. A water pan was between Millersburg and Ligionier - I believe it was just a couple of miles east of Millersburg. Another bit of NYC trivia - the Big Four did not use water pans. The LS&MS (the Elkhart-Toledo-New York - today NS west of Toledo, not sure what it is east of Toledo [much of the former NYC became NS here in Indiana, not CSX as it did elsewhere]) line had quite a few water pans on it, and one of the NYC lists had a thread on the water pan locations. Mark Plank -- Get a Free E-mail Account at Mail.com! Choose From 100+ Personalized Domains Visit http://www.mail.com today Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
