3713, 1957

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:02 pm

Presently under rebuild at Scranton, here is B&M 3713 stored at Billerica Shops in Massachusetts, with an 0-8-0, which did not survive:

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... ydate%3A19

And just the tenders of the 3719 and 3716, headed for scrap at Billerica the following year:

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... ydate%3A20

And some older Pacifics being cut up there in 1953:

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... ydate%3A35

Scott · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:18 pm

The second photo (of the two tenders alone) made me wonder:

How would you move a tender alone in train? I assume that couplers would have to be affixed to the "front" of the tender in place of the drawbar.

I also assume that they did this even to move these two to the scrapper.

Scott

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:57 pm

They might have connected them drawbar-to-drawbar also, with couplers remaining at either end..

k5ahudson · **Joined:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:30 am **Posts:** 773

Scott wrote:

How would you move a tender alone in train?
Scott

Put it on a flat car. That's what they did with RDG 2100's tender for just that reason.