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A tender or coal-car (US only) is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel (wood, coal, oil or torrefied biomass) and water.Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity of fuel, so their tenders are necessary to keep them running over long distances.
Slopeback tender: 7/11 American Locomotive Company 4-6-0 April 1907 New for $13,700. Sold for scrap 1951, scrapped 1952. Renumbered October 1911. Passenger locomotive. 8/20 American Locomotive Company 4-6-0 February 1907 New for $14,975 Sold for scrap 1954. Built in Paterson, New Jersey. Renumbered October 1911. Mixed service. 21 American ...
Locomotive with slopeback tender, loading the Sunset Limited onto the train-ferry Solano at Port Costa, San Francisco, Southern Pacific R.R. Classification yard and two docking train ferries in Detroit, April 1943.
After the dissolution of the USRA, the Atlantic Coast Line, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Texas and Pacific Railway ordered additional copies of the USRA 0-6-0 design, while the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway ordered only copies.
It is one of several "stock" switchers equipped with a slope-backed tender. During the first nineteen years of its existence, the engine worked at the Baldwin Locomotive Works plant in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Painted in Baldwin's standard olive green with aluminum trim and lettering livery, the engine labored hauling raw materials and ...
#12, OR&LC, ALCO 0-6-0 Slopeback tender engine (Last remaining Hawaiian switching engine) #6, OR&LC (Kauila), Baldwin Locomotive Works 0-4-2 T engine (First locomotive Purchased by the OR&L) #6, Waialua Agricultural Company, an 0-6-2 T engine (Only locomotive built in the state of Hawaii) #1, Ewa Plantation Company, Baldwin Locomotive Works 0-4 ...
Great Western 90 is a preserved 12-42-F class 2-10-0 "Decapod" steam locomotive owned and operated by the Strasburg Rail Road (SRC) east of Strasburg, Pennsylvania.Built in June 1924 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, No. 90 originally pulled sugar beet trains for the Great Western Railway of Colorado, and it was the largest of the company’s roster.
4129 with number on the tender, pre-1928. The LMS constructed 530 of the locomotives between 1923 and 1928, numbered sequentially from where the Midland engines left off from 4027. A further 45 examples were reluctantly authorised by William Stanier in 1937 at the behest of the operating department.