Engine 346's new tender tank made in Strasburg

gbrewer · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:30 am **Posts:** 150

A close up of 346's new, stainless steel tender at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

Glen Brewer
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Kelly Anderson · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:52 am **Posts:** 2477

gbrewer · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:30 am **Posts:** 150

Kelley,

You are welcome. It looks really nice, and it hold water too:

Anything going on with the 20?

Glen Brewer
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Becky Morgan · **Joined:** Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:22 pm **Posts:** 495

Very nice! Too bad it doesn't say Ohio River and Western :) Robert Richardson said once he'd been sorely tempted to use one of those magnetic signs on the old one.
Stainless ought to keep that in good shape for a long time.

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:39 pm

Indeed, that tender does look good (as does the whole locomotive)! I find it particularly interesting that the shops at Strasburg went so far as to reproduce various patches and repairs to the tank.

Which brings up the question--would some of us consider this appropriate? After all, if a railroad was to replace a tank, they would just build a new tank (not bothering with the replicated patches); in some cases the tank would have been welded (with no rivets at all--as on at least one Shay at Cass and on EBT 17).

So, is it "right" to build a new tank with replicated repairs? Or perhaps more appropriately, when is it "right" to build a new tender that looks like a new or replacement tender, and when is it "right" to build a replica tender that looks like an old patched tender?

G. W. Laepple · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:10 pm **Posts:** 1182

That depends entirely on who's writing the check.

Loco112 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:35 pm

Construction photos?

Brendan Zeigler · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:32 pm **Posts:** 51

The frame was also constructed in our shops. Some of the hardware and trucks are more or less all that remains of the original.