How many people run their PW Santa Fe 2343 screen top "B" units with Screen Top vents forward like the power unit? Most pics show the "B" unit, when coupled with the power unit, with the smoke stacks forward, screens in the back. The truck with the id plate screwed to it is the front truck. But the shell can be but on either way. Interesting.
bob
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Not postwar, not even O, but I like to run them with the "Chief's" facing forward:
In reality, Santa Fe ran them every which way.
Rusty
I would agree with the chief facing forward... However, on many of the p/w B units the chief faced forward on one side of the "B" and backwards on the other.
More often the "B" unit was run with the exhaust fans in the back, just like the A-unit. So do it that way.
Hmmm...it sounds like some people don't understand how a real railroad works. B units were not turned at each end of a run. There would be no advantage to do so. I don't know of many reversing loops either, on a real railroad, other than the Sunnyside yard loop in Queens, NY. There are probably a few others, but I doubt if they were designed for B units. I suppose that there may have been some WYE tracks that would accommodate an A unit and one or more B units, and I further suppose that the railroad might leave them all hooked up and turn the whole group.
If a B unit starts in California and ends up in Chicago, it probably goes back to California facing the same direction. "Correct" logo direction going East, "incorrect" logo direction going West.
Arthur,
The title of this topic reads: How Do You Run Your PW "B" Units?
NOT how it works in the real world, which is how you responded.
Hmmmm, it sounds like some people do not know how to answer the question asked.
Don't know how I Run my 2343 ABA B unit. Does it really matter?
Is the PW here refering to the PW celebration series? On some realPW B units there was a right way to the B. Because sets of 2245 were AB, the B had two different couplers. The dummy side connected to the A unit; self centering to the train.
SantaFeJim posted:Arthur,
The title of this topic reads: How Do You Run Your PW "B" Units?
NOT how it works in the real world, which is how you responded.
Hmmmm, it sounds like some people do not know how to answer the question asked.
Well, Santa Fe's F3 B-units in the real world were definitely postwar...
Rusty
Read Post .......... "PW Santa Fe 2343" Screen top. No it doesnt really matter aka Nick. Just curious.
bob
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