02-10-2009, 11:38 PM
jim currie Wrote:here are two photos showing the engine and tender though they are from two different engines.
you can see the draw bar and safety bar on the engine and some of the connections on the tender.
Jim
I think that round tube above the drawbar is the stoker in the picture. Every pic I've seen of Santa Fe steam shows the Engine number on the tender. I've never seen a picture of a Santa Fe steamer with a tender whose number didn't match, or a picture of a tender for the Santa Fe that didn't have an engine number on it. The Santa Fe did change out tenders from time to time. Usually a particular locomotive might be re-assigned from long haul to helper service. When it went into helper service, depending on the length of the grade, a locomotive might receive a smaller tender than it would use in long haul service.