To answer two of the questions above:

1. The 261's aux tender was acquired from NS after they shut the steam program down. I think it was ex-ACL - can anyone confirm?

2. The 1225's aux tender came from (I think) a IC 2600-class engine. Could that be one of the tenders mentioned above?

Chris.

I believe the 261 tender is one of the aforementioned ex-L&N "Big Emma" 2-8-4 tenders. Southern and NS had several of these, including one that was given to the Indiana Transportation Museum for NKP 587.

In recent years there was one of those ex-L&N diesel fuel tankers made from a 2-8-4 tender stored with privately owned B&LE 2-10-4 643 in McKees Rocks, PA. I recall reading that they were at some point banned from carrying diesel fuel as they could not be kept leak-free. That notwithstanding, L&N did a very neat job of conversion, you had to look hard to figure out how it was done.

Hello everyone. I hope you are all well. I found pics of two more on the web.

Steam gone from the Pennsy about 10 years at this point, I can see a coast-to-coast tender making an easy fit for MOW service with its huge tank:
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images ... 999401.jpg

This one blows my mind - talk about a time capsule! From the Conrail Cyclopedia site, photographed about 1984:
http://crcyc.railfan.net/mow/wreck/cr45305.jpg

God bless. Seth

What about the western states?
Any ex- Santa Fe, SP, UP, WP, Milwaukee, NP GN, etc . . . ?

The Soo Line had a few kicking around into the 1970's/early 80's. At least one of them made it to the Minnesota Transportation Museum (which also has an ex-Great Northern tender in kit form). I think another one of the ex-Soo Line tenders is currently behind 4960 at the Grand Canyon Railway.

Has mention been made of the tenders stored along with the Lost Engines of Roanoke?

http://lostengines.railfan.net/otherequip.shtml

See my post on page 2 of this topic

The September 2009 issue of Railfan & Railroad has a short article about the Western Mining & Railroad Museum of Helper, Utah, which also contains some information about this tender at Spring Glen. It's a former Utah Railway tender from one of their UP-style 2-8-8-0s.

Jeff Terry

Ed,

As noted elsewhere in the thread, that's the one that ended up first at the Wilmington & Western and then later at the Western NY RHS in western NY state.

One year, the W&W calendar had a photo of ex-US Navy 0-6-0T #3 apparently switching, coupled to, or backed up against this tender, looking for all the world like it was setting off on a non-stop transcontinental run.

What was really amazing was that in 1978, that coal tower still had all of its chutes and rigging, and looked ready to fuel an L-1 for the trip up to Enola. Most commonly, these things were shorn of all the steel bits and were simply old concrete monuments looming over old engine terminals.

Howard P.

HP,

Wasn't there a small New Haven tender kicking around Rhode Island that was in jeopardy recently? It rings a bell...

Rob

Non-surviving tenders, New Haven division---

A short, former I-1 2-10-2 (USRA-looking) tender that was attached to the New Haven 230-ton wrecker for years became a Conrail/Metro-North "water car" for Harlem Div. fire patrols in 1978 or so; the coal boards were cut off. This one rusted horribly, and was scrapped by MNCR in the mid-80s at East Bridgeport (my memory is fuzzy, could have been at Croton North).

A six-axle New Haven tender (apparently from 4-6-2 1388, which was used on theNew Haven's "official Last Run of Steam in April 1952) was used for years as a diesel fuel tank at New Bedford, MA. The area became a redevelopment site, and was badly contaminated by fuel spills, etc. This tender also had no coal collar, and was also many feet distant from active track. It was cut up about 4-5 years ago when the property was cleared (by MBTA?).

A small clear vision switcher tender from a CV 0-8-0 kicked around Brattleboro and New London in the early 70s, and was purchased by Valley RR for use behind #97. 97's old tender, the original Cooke-built one, still exists, shoved partly off the end of track in the "South Yard" at Essex.

Howard P.

Tender Behind, CT
(well, someone had to use it...)

I found a photo of one of these steam boilers: http://www.themetrains.com/html/auto_co ... erator.htm