In the 1960s, Burlington fantrips using the 4960 usually trailed an auxillary tender for extra water capacity. This tender was once used by a heavy 4-6-2 on the Fort Worth & Denver, but converted to auxillary use after that engine was scrapped. In "real" use, it trailed Colorado & Southern 2-10-2s on trackage north of Cheyenne until 1959. Afterward the parent Q took it east for excursions. Anyone know what happened to it? I suspect scrapped, but when/where? Incidently, the 4960's original Q tender was scrapped by the Grand Canyon Railway after the engine was rebuilt, receiving a larger 6-axle tender.

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> In the 1960s, Burlington fantrips using the
> 4960 usually trailed an auxillary tender for
> extra water capacity. This tender was once
> used by a heavy 4-6-2 on the Fort Worth
> & Denver, but converted to auxillary use
> after that engine was scrapped. In
> "real" use, it trailed Colorado
> & Southern 2-10-2s on trackage north of
> Cheyenne until 1959. Afterward the parent Q
> took it east for excursions. Anyone know
> what happened to it? I suspect scrapped, but
> when/where? Incidently, the 4960's original
> Q tender was scrapped by the Grand Canyon
> Railway after the engine was rebuilt,
> receiving a larger 6-axle tender.

I don't have information on this particular auxiliary tender, but a second tender which was used by Colorado & Southern on its excursions was preserved and acquired by Everett Rohrer as part of the Great Western 75 collection. The "bottle" was used extensively during 75's movie-making career (although it was not seen on-camera). This tender has equalized trucks under it, and still has the slope sheet/cutout for an oil bunker (it did not appear to have been used for coal). Heber Valley Railroad purchased the auxiliary tender (along with the balance of the Rohrer collection) in 1999, but had no use for it in Utah. We donated the tender to the Ohio Central, and it is currently stored near the Ohio Central's Morgan Run facility, parked adjacent to the 1278.

clacey@hebervalleyrr.org