"TENDER TUESDAY"

[cn nutbar]

Excellent work Doc

Steve---Whenever Wayne works on any of my locomotives we try to find pictures of the prototypes.The tender for S2A Mike #3547 was a bit of a mystery and we finally realized the tender was transferred from a rebuilt S1G (#3198) Mikado.When the S2A Mikes were built some had an oil-bunker tender and others had Vanderbilt tenders.This is how the models were produced.When I purchased #3547 from an estate sale the original owner had tried to modify the tender to match the tender from #3198 and Doc tried to explain some of the issues he encounterd during his repair.I found a picture of the prototype but I do not know the origin so I hope it's OK to post it :



Here's a picture of the model with the modified tender



Here's a S2A Mike (3529) with her original Vanderbilt tender