B&O Home Movies - JJ Young

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Ask the B&O mavens in the groups.io group about this -- there have been quite a few posts over the years about the use of water bottles or whatever B&O called them.

With the advent of better water treatment, especially postwar, the use of track tanks became less and less preferable to hauling the equivalent of an extra tank car or two to increase the effective range without stopping.  You may remember that the water rate goes up with developed horsepower, so that a locomotive with 8000 nominal HP like the V-1 prototype has a range no greater than about 130 miles.  In the days when stops at division points were typical, it might be tolerable to refill a coast-to-coast equivalent during the dwell.  But one of the great points about F units was that they could go much further unrefuelled...

Ed King's discussion of N&W A locomotives operating with A-tanks in a very specific service may be worth finding and reading, although I think most if not all of B&O's actual use was to permit longer runs between stops.  There is very little point to high locomotive or train power or speed if you have to grind to a stop over and over...

[BaltACD]

Enzoamps

Cool, thank you. 

As my trackside years were all diesel era, a couple details in the movies I never considered.  I saw some large tenders with dog houses.  I was unaware the B&O had them.   And another scene with a doubleheaded power each locomotive had a tank car trailing its tender.  Presumably to extend the water supply.I am pretty ceertain it was not just a freight car, as there was one tank car between the two engines.  And identical one trailing the second engine.  That was new to me.  I have seen other photos of engines with a second tender , but not just a plain tank car.

I likewise noticed the engines with tank cars trailing the tenders.  I asked the question on the YouTube site and after a year I have not gotten a reply pro or con.  Noticed that those engines had 'relatively' small tenders - at least their tenders were not among the large tenders B&O was using on their EM-1 articulateds or their various T classes of Mountain engines.

[Enzoamps]

Cool, thank you.

 

As my trackside years were all diesel era, a couple details in the movies I never considered.  I saw some large tenders with dog houses.  I was unaware the B&O had them.   And another scene with a doubleheaded power each locomotive had a tank car trailing its tender.  Presumably to extend the water supply.I am pretty ceertain it was not just a freight car, as there was one tank car between the two engines.  And identical one trailing the second engine.  That was new to me.  I have seen other photos of engines with a second tender , but not just a plain tank car.

[BaltACD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY2C0eeTaog