"TENDER TUESDAY"

[doctorwayne]

Here's a little tender that I found to be very interesting...



The photo is from the collection of the late Bill Grandin, and its use here is through the courtesy of Jim Parker. Jim generously shares his photo collection with me and a number of other railway enthusiasts, with daily e-mails of 10 or 12 railroad-related photos. I save only those of particular interest to me, and have, I believe, at least a couple of thousand.

This tender looks to me to have its origins in a tender very similar to the one seen on the locomotive just ahead of the 492. Picture that tender, turned around so that its slope-backed cistern is facing the back of 492's cab. And picture that tender's coal bunker, at the rear, with a top on it, complete with a water hatch. And imagine a coal bunker built up atop the former sloped-back of the tender - you can even see the contrasting shade of black running diagonally through the "IFIC" of "PACIFIC". After that was in place, all that would be needed to complete the 492's tender would be the vertical hopper extension seen atop the coal bunker, with the handrail around it.

I can't, of course, say for certain that that's how 492's tender came to be, but it sure looks like it to me...what do you think?

I think that that's one sweet-looking little tender, complete with rolled-top edges on the cistern, à la Norfolk & Western J, handrails and ladders all over the place, and with a water hatch worthy of a much bigger locomotive, along with a back-up light and a light for the deck of the cistern, too! As they say around these parts..."Beauty, eh?"

Wayne

[e-paw]

Looks like a real world kit-bash Doc.

[cn nutbar]

The CNR K3G Pacifics were western Canada locomotives and were oil-burners.Here's #5626 with a typical oil bunker equipped tender.

[e-paw]

It's that day again

I had a whirlwind past few weeks and chomping at the bit to get some hobby time in. I had a few minuets today so I started looking up Coal pushers. I'll give you the cliff notes version of what I learned.

They had one job, and did it well, Move coal from the rear of the bunker to the front. This was to aid the fireman in either shoveling or keeping a constant flow of coal into the stoker. It's a simple device fashioned of a piston attached to a shield. They can be steam or air powered depending on the wishes of the railroad.


I found this nicely done article about our subject, and a book that I will have to find.
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And here is a patent from 1923 from the Standard stoker Co. for a coal pusher.
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[cn nutbar]

[e-paw]

Welcome to yet another ""TENDER TUESDAY"". I was researching something else in the world of tow-behind fuel holders when I stumbled on something that's a little out of my comfort zone interest and became fascinated with,, A UP turbine tender.

I found this build by accident and was impressed with his choice of materials and techniques.
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This is the pic that started this interest as I was looking for big boy tenders.
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They were salvaged from out of service steamers for use behind the turbines. By 1970 all the turbines were off the roster, but, their tenders went into excursion service behind the UPs roster of steamers.

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[e-paw]

Happy Halloween on Tender Tuesday..
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[nachoman]

Well, I missed Tuesday, but here is an HOn3 D&RGW class 56 tender I designed and printed on shapeways....

[e-paw]

It's Tender Tuesday again.

And this week I have more news on the Boston and Main tender going under restoration at Steamtown in Scranton PA.

The tender tank is on it's way to get measured and reproduced as new. In this Rich Jahn cell phone pic It's on it's way off the parks property to a fabricator ( I don't know where ). You can check the Steamtown Facebook page for a few more pics.
   

As of now the tender frame is still parked in the same location as before. In the pic you can see the wooden planks placed on the steal frame to help support the cistern. Also the front of the frame, where the stoker is mounted, has been encapsulated as some asbestoses was discovered after the tank was removed. After that has been cleaned and the "Historic Structure", as Steamtown calls them, is deemed safe I will get some detail shots.    

[doctorwayne]

Here's the re-built Bachmann tender, just about ready for lettering...





...and just being pulled from the paint shop...



...and re-united with the locomotive...



Wayne

[e-paw]

Nicely done doc.

For this week, I have a few shots of A tender that I had built back when I was in high school. :?

It's a Roundhouse rotary snowplow, I was feeling seasonal.
   

The "canvas" curtains shown in this pic are from a taco bell napkin.
   


I believe the grab iron near the ladder is a staple.
   


I built a cover over the coal bunker to keep the flying snow out. But, I didn't take into consideration how the HO holsters would get it off to get the coal in. :o
   

[Schraddel]

It is tuesday, TENDER TUESDAY.

Going to make a diaphragm between tender and loco from scratch:


The guide rods were made out of 0.8mm brass wire. On one end a 0.3mm bronze wire was soldered across, the ohter end was threaded with M 1.0mm thread.
The hinges were made out of 0.25mm bronze sheet (remains of frames for etching).
The black sheet is 0.5mm styrene.




The springs are out of the grab box.




The tunnel onto the tender front have to be a trapezoid shape to enable enough active play when the loco enters a curve.




As the styrene sheet is black coloured, there is lateron no painting necessary. And there will be no paint which can be rubbed off.




The tender front was drilled with 4 holes to enable the guide rods the necessasy movements. Still some adjustmens to do.

[e-paw]

Very cool and inventive build Lutz.

I have a pic or two to share from my chase last weekend for this Tender Tuesday.....

A nicely rendered Miss Liberty herald that belongs to CNJ 113. This tender, and the 200,000 pound loco It's attached to, represents 1/2 of the surviving steam power of the CNJ and 113 is the only operating engine of the two.
   

A few years back a dedicated group of railfans returned this B-7s 0-6-0 back life, basically under a tent. Just do a search on project 133 if you want to know more, they can tell the story better that I ever could. But for this thread, I will focus on the tender.
   

Alco put this tender together back in June of 23 and it is identical to the tenders towed behind the smaller USRA B-6 0-6-0's. It's unknown if this is the original tender that was shipped with this engine from Schenectady, as the CNJ had tender swapping down to a fine art. All CNJ tenders had a removable number plate with raised aluminum numbers that were a standard size. It was held in a bracket on the rear of each tender by gravity so that tenders could be quickly reassigned to other engines during servicing. Nowhere on the tender is the engines number painted. I believe that the number plate has been permanently attached to prevent theft, as it is still the original one. This tender held 7,000 gallons of water and 10 tons of anthracite, Just as stenciled on the rear of the cistern. Wooden coal boards were added to it just before it was sold to the Philadelphia Coal and Iron co. back in 1953 to bring It's capacity up a few tons, they have since been removed to preserve It's as build appearance.
   

   

[BR60103]

e-Paw
does the tender have a number of its own?

[e-paw]

No sir. And the builder number that is normally cast into the frame is no longer readable.