TRACK WATER PANS

[Firelock76]

Don't forget those track pans were good for depositing the occasional "surprise package" in the tender, you know, such things as frogs, snakes, or the odd snapping turtle now and then.

There's a story, probably apocryphal, that if there was a medical school nearby the srudents would drop things like arms and legs from cadavers in the track pans, but I'm not so sure I believe that one!

[daveklepper]

There were also track pans on the Royal Blue B&O route between Jersey City and Washington.   At  least one may have been on the Reading or CNJ for use primarily by B&O locomotives that ran through with B&O engine crews JC-DC.   The Reading locomotive may also have used them on their runs between JC and Philadlephia, but I doubt the CNJ engines did since their runs were relatively short,    Except for the Queen of th eValley route to Harrisburg.

Did not the IC also use track pans on their main line?

[K4sPRR]

Michigan Central had track pans near Dexter Michigan in an area called Kinnear.  This is in SE Michigan.

[Train-O]

arkady,

Try this:

http://www.prrths.com/index.html

Take care,

Ralph

[arkady]

I'd like to know just where the PRR's track pans were located.  I lived around the PRR for all my life (well, until it wasn't the PRR any longer), and although I heard about track pans, I never saw one anywhere.  Is there a reference somewhere, that documents where the track pans were installed?

 

[wjstix]

PRR and NYC were the main users, there might have been others but those are the two that usually come to mind. It was pretty common in Britain, and I think started there.

None in our part of the world however. In the US it was pretty much limited to the eastern states.

[NP Eddie]

It seems like the PRR and NYC used track pans to replenish the water in steam locomotive tenders. 

Did other railroads also used track pans?

Were any close to Minneapolis/St. Paul?

I have seen pictures of large coal capacity PRR tenders and I assume they had a greater coal capacity to water due to the track pans.

Any other information about track pans would be appreciated.

Thank you,

 

Ed Burns of Anoka, MN