What are you doing with your B'mann EM-1s?

rogergperkins May 15, 2016

  1. rogergperkins

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    After I purchased a book about the EM-1s, I discovered they were also used in passenger service. This is my interpretation of that information.
     
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  2. rogergperkins

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  4. RedRiverRR4433

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    My B&O EM-1's are being used to pull long coal trains.

    Staying cool and having fun with it......:cool::cool:

    Shades
     
  5. brokemoto

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    I have seen photographs and movies of EM-1s on #29, #30 and #31, which were mail and express trains on the B&O. The things did have sixty-four inch drivers, which did give them some speed. B&O preferred sixty-four to sixty three inch drivers. I have seen photographs and movies of Big Sixes on those same trains. The 2-10-2s were fast, not drag freight power on the B&O, as they were on SP, also. William Price took most of those photographs and movies. He was a well-known photographer and filmer of the B&O.

    I do not know if B&O ever equipped any of the EM-1s or Big Sixes with steam lines and signalling devices. Most of the Q-4s did have steam lines and signalling devices.

    SP did equip many of its F classes for passenger work. If they worked passenger trains, it was usually in the mountains of Oregon, although I have seen one or two F classes working passengers elsewhere, including an SF Peninsula commute.

    B&O actually wanted more FTs to use as helpers, but the War Production Board told it that it would be getting these, instead.
     
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  6. gatrhumpy

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    I'm using mine to pull trains. :D
     
  7. rogergperkins

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    Freight or passenger? If freight, what sort of cars? Thanks.
     
  8. Maletrain

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    The EM1s were all equipped with steam lines and signaling lines. The Big Sixes were not, as far as I can tell. The Big Sixes did serve as front-end helpers for E unit diesels hauling passenger trains over some Appalachian grades, but the steam for the passenger cars came from the E units.
     
  9. ogre427

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    Pulling freight, usually coal.
     
  10. badlandnp

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    Originally I was pulling freight with it. The curves on the first NPBH wouldn't handle a passenger car so that wasn't happening much. Future plans call for modifying it to be a sorta NP 5000 class Z-5 Yellowstone. It will take some extensive modifications, but that will be fun!
     

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