08-27-2009, 01:20 PM
The A&A replied to my e-mail asking about the tilted tender: according to them, the tender is from loco #14 and the tilt is caused by the fact that "it couples up differently". 
Perhaps the tender drawbars are mounted higher than those on the 18's original tender - mounting a lower truck on the front of the tender may have been sufficient to get things to line-up properly with the loco. Still, it would have looked better if they had changed the rear truck too, so that it matched. 
Wayne
Perhaps the tender drawbars are mounted higher than those on the 18's original tender - mounting a lower truck on the front of the tender may have been sufficient to get things to line-up properly with the loco. Still, it would have looked better if they had changed the rear truck too, so that it matched. Wayne