12-30-2009, 08:17 AM
Steamtrains Wrote:Lionel or AF reefers..??
I was wondering how that engine got its coal....Now I see management has seen fit to provide a tender for it....
STEAMTRAIN : Yes they all are American Flyier (Gilbert) cars. This Mantua 2-6-6-2 is a oil burner. To the rear of the cab on #17, the old photo, is a large oil tank. I put it on the rebuild. The size of this tank limits the distance this loco can go without a refill. I put this same problum onto the rebuild. That is way this rebuilt loco will have a tender added. And it will be converted to a coal burrner. The addition of the tender would change it from a large switcher, to a real road engine.
I am playing with the idea of turning around the loco, and making a cab foward 2-6-6-2. Then use a oil tender behind it. Southern Pacific did this with many articulated locomotives.
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