@William Jack posted:FYI.............................
Small correction..................From what I have just read on Y-3's Baldwin build these engines for many railroads in the early days........I just saw a picture of one of the CRR. Y-3's and the one I saw had several different features on her.... Disc pilot wheels and trailing truck.... air pumps on boiler face and a road pilot instead of the footstep pilot...... will lionel correct these problems or......................................
Regards
Jackie
Y3 is the N&W classification. The "Y" covers all of N&W's 2-8-8-2's.
Baldwin, along with Alco built USRA 2-8-8-2's for various railroads, including the N&W. The N&W Y3a 2050 at Illinois Railway Museum is an Alco product.
From what I've been reading lately, the 2-8-8-2 type was generally being called "Chesapeake" locomotives. Sorta new news to me, but I haven't drilled down deeper to verify this.
A correction from an earlier post: B&O did buy USRA 2-8-8-2's, they were rebuilt into 2-8-8-0's. Brooks Stover wrote an article converting the Lionel/Flyer Y3 to a B&O EL-5. I think it was in an NASG Dispatch or S Gaugian, but I haven't been able to locate it.
Rusty
