In reviewing a film about Maine Central steam, I noticed quite a few Mikados with side rods on the front tender trucks. Quite a remarkable sight. Are any locomotives in preservation so equipped? Any in operation?

LS&I 33 at the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, OH did, at one point in time. I'm not sure if it still does or not.

LS&I 35 at IRM does. LS&I 34 did not, one reason when the 35 became available, the 34 was de-accessioned (now at Western Maryland Scenic).

Not certain if they are still on the property, but the booster truck on Grand Canyon Ry. 2-8-0 29 was still around and at one time, I believe that they were trying to sell it.

33 does not have a booster under her tender. It was pulled off early in her career at the Hocking Valley Scenic and scrapped. Her front tender truck is actually a freight car truck, but she does have her original tender truck in the back. Her former owner told me that the booster beat the daylights out of the track and gave a very rough ride.

DM&IR 0-10-2 #604 has a tender booster.

http://steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=1016

I believe I asked this question the last time the subject of tender boosters/auxillary locomotives came up but here goes again. Does anyone know if a Bethlehem Auxillary Locomotive exists, or even a part/parts of one in any condition?

Hi Richard
What was the name of the Maine Central film , that you were reviewing , Thanks Pat.

This is the only operating Tender Booster/Auxiliary Locomotive I am aware of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVOSLDx ... Q&index=36

I wish there were more videos of Maine Central steam.

"Maine Central Memories", by Lawrence Brown. He was an old timer who shot all manner of MEC film on 8mm film. He had it all transferred to VHS, and narrated it.
Amazing stuff.

On the topic of tenders..are there any still out there with the bottom mounted water pickups? Or even any track sections with water pans left?

I remember 1 at the B & O RR Museum, Pratt & Poppleton Sts., Baltimore, Md. It was very narrow, nothing like Lionel's. The Railroad Museum of East Strasburg, Penna. should have some, and the Altoona, Penna. Railroaders' Museum might have 1.

A couple PRR survivors did have water scoops, most specifically 4-4-2 460 and possibly/probably K4s 3750, G5 5741, and M1 6755. At least one of the tenders with PRR I1sa 4483 in New York State has a scoop (the smaller one attached to the loco).

I believe the last time any water troughs were used may have been in East Germany in the early 1970s, though London & North Eastern 4472 availed herself of a couple surviving U.K. pans in the late 1960s, including the May 4 1968 nonstop run Kings Cross-Edinburgh with two tenders and three still-semi-maintained troughs, Scrooby, Wiske Moor, and Lucker. Remember, even the Class 40 and 55 diesels were equipped with water scoops for replenishing the onboard steam generators for passenger train heating!

Pretty sure 592, the Jersey Central Camelback at B&O has one.

Bob Bunge