Did the B&O FT's ever pull passenger trains? The NYOW units probably had Steam generators. Alos, were the FT cab unit ever run with out their boosters?
Thanks
Scott
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Here's a link to a B&O FT pulling passenger cars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1j0COEnXDc Looks real to me.
Alan
Well, I don't see any steam generator vents on the back roof of the B unit, or boiler water fillers and there was no room in the A for a steam generator, so I would say as a general rule, no.
FT's came connected with a drawbar to the B-units initially. Some railroads later replaced the drawbar with couplers.
All the pictures on the Northeast Railfan site of B&O locomotives show A-B FT's, no single units.
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo112.jpg
Rusty
Originally Posted by ajzend:
Looks real to me.
Alan
Well it sure doesn't to me! Plus, it doesn't answer the original poster's question about the prototype.
The NYO&W's didn't have steam generators (to save money probably on the purchase price).....in either their FTs or F3s. It appears that the O&W's FTs only pulled passenger consists in the summer (when you could open the windows). The F3s were wired for heater cars. The O&W rebuilt 2 of the 2-10-2 class steam tenders into heater cars for use with F3s for winter passenger runs.
One reference:
NYO&W in the Diesel Age by Rob Mohowski, page 87.
Peter
Thanks for all your help!!
Scott
Well, you could have a unit with a s/g lashed up mu'ed behind the FT's. But I don't know that much about B&O's engine policies.
Hi, Scott.
B&O's FT units were purchased strictly for freight service. The B units were equipped with steam generators; however, they were of small capacity and used only to heat engine fluids while the locomotive was shut down in cold weather. When B&O began converting its passenger service to diesel power, the first unit employed was the Number 50, a 1800 horsepower B-B trucked boxcab which was more or less a mechanical ancestor of the soon to be developed A1A-A1A series of E units. Class EA/EB units were the next diesel passenger power acquired by B&O.
B&O's FTs were delivered in A-B-B-A sets but were subsequently separated into individual A-B configurations. In addition to the units it acquired new directly from the builder, four second hand units - two A's and two B's - were purchased from the NYO&W.
I hope this helps.
Bob
