I have an old MRC/Rowa Mallets in ATSF paint. I did hear that the Santa Fe received Mallets from the N&W for the second world war. I want to know what class of Mallet the Santa Fe received, and if there are good books or websites on the subject. Thank you, Brian
Santa Fe had only eight 2-8-8-2s (1790-1797)from N&W during WWII. They were used as helpers on Raton . Check in "Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail" pages 276 & 285. What's the # on yours?
Roadnumber 2199. The model is a Y6b, but i don't know when they were made, I read that they were shipped in 1948 but i also read they were shipped in 1937.
2199 is neither a Santa Fe nor NW # for this class of locomotive. The NW engines were built in 1919 by ALCO. Found this site by Googling "Y6B": Norfolk and Western Class Y Locomotives It says the the mallets sold to Santa Fe were Y3s. So the MRC Y6B as a Santa DFe must be a "Fig Newton" of their imagination. LOL
Not Y6b, try Y3. A very close match to the USRA 2-8-8-2. N&W kept all its Y6bs at home. The Santa Fe mallets were used in Raton Pass helper service. At the end of the war the Santa Fe mallets were sold to the Virginian.
This particular articulated design is based upon standards praduced during World War I by the U.S.R.A. "United States Raitroad Administration", and the Norfolk & Western had various, less powerful, classes of similar wheels arrangements prior to the appearance of the final and most modem of tbc series-Class Y6b. Deliveries of Y6b's began in 1936 and were constructed in the railroad's own Roanoke Shops-a big boom to the local economy. This class was designed to pull very heavy trains at an average of 30-miles per hour, but they were so well balanced that under favorable conditions they could make 50 miles an hour without damage to either the rails or their chassis. Each Y6b in later years cast tbc company $260,(}00 each, as compared io the earliest versions-class Y3 of World War I, which only cost $91,569 a piece. In later years ali classes of these articulated locomotives had their drivers increased to 58" diameter. Some statistics on the Y6b include: steam pressure: 300 Ibs.; tractive effort: compound 126,838, simple 152,206; Weight of engine and tender 990,120 lbs.; while tbc tenders had a water capacity of 22,000 gallons and a coal capacity of 30 tons. Roller bearings on alt engine and tender axles. Road numbers for this class began with 2171. Later the N&W sold some of these locomotives to various railroads, amongst them-the Santa Fe, the Pennsylvania, the Virginian. These engines had lo be rugged since most of the terrain they operated aver was mountainous and their trains usually consisted of fully loaded coal hopper cars from the mines.
