RE: [CBQ] Elephant style E's

["'Charley Hill' chill4@neb.rr.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

John

If memory serves me correctly, the one pipe on the fireman’s side was for Main Reservoir air pressure and the other 4 on the engineer’s side were for the independent brake and bail-off (actuating) brakes and I believe for air signal purposes.

Charley

 

From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 12:27 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Elephant style E's

 

 

Stephen,

    I think you are talking about the multi-pin electrical cable that attached between the units under the flaps by the upper headlight.. I am talking about the rubber pneumatic MU hoses that screwed into the downward pointing elbows on pipes that protrude just above the anti-climber- down by the top of the pilot. There were 4 hoses on the engineer's side- and 1 on the fireman's side.

  John

 

On 1/24/2018 10:32 AM, Stephen Levine sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com [CBQ] wrote:

The MU plugs were under doors to each side  of the upper headlight.  The hoses themselves were not attached

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On Jan 24, 2018, at 10:47 AM, John Olson trains28@bresnan.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

  I have followed this thread with great interest and a lot of superb
photos have surfaced. One thing I have noticed in these CBQ@yahoo 
photos, Mike Spoor's Morning Sun books and John Strauss' Four Ways West
books- is the fact that very few photos show nose MU hoses on the lead
unit- even when Elephant style running became common. I wonder if
certain units 'Unofficially' were designated as 'lead' units- or were
the boys in the 'Zephyr Pit' kept busy unscrewing and screwing on the
nose MU hoses? I know the removal of the hoses was probably dibe to keep
them from flapping around at 90 mph and thrashing the front of the
locomotive.

 John Olson

 Billings, Mt

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Billings, Mt 59102

406-259-5354
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Jim's Junction

811B 16th St. West

Billings, Mt 59102

406-259-5354

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