Just for a bit of detail, the boiler and tender are not from a camelback. The boiler is small with Belpaire firebox, similar to that usede on a Pennsy H-3. AFASK, there were only 3 camelbacks ever made with Belpaire fireboxes and they carried a hybrid Belpaire/Wooten design. I would suspect that the boiler was made by the Pennsy (or taken off a damaged loco) as a replacement for the original Cooke made boiler. The tender it carries now is definately Pennsy made and replaced the Cooke made tender in 1940.

The Rotory is very bad shape at Steamtown. There is still a large quatity of coal in the tender. It could really use a cosmetic restoration.

Roger

> The LIRR rotary was purchased after the
> "Blizzard of '88" which papralyzed
> the LIRR about as badly as it did the rest
> of the nation. This particular rotary has a
> Camelback boiler and tender, possibly left
> over the the great age of such engines. I
> was preserved through the efforts of Ron
> Ziel, amongst others, and is now at
> Steamtown. The Long Island decided to get
> rid of it in the late 1960's, figuring, I
> suppose, that snow would not dare interfere
> with the workings of the New York State
> Metropolitan Transit Authority! But in all
> sincerity, the LI wasn't interested in
> running this one steam boiler in the Diesel
> age. The railroad will employ a Jordan
> Spreader in the case of future snow
> disasters.


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