I'm looking for information on steam loco tenders that later wound up in MOW service. Specifically, what were the brake wheel mounting arrangements? I'm assuming they needed brake wheels, just as with any other car. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.
Actually most tenders were built without an independent braking system, on the SP it was necessary to add these features when converted to MOW service, I have photos of one such conversion with a brake wheel mounted on each end on a former GS class tender, it appears to be same design as was mounted on cabooses and ws probably sourced from same.
Dave
GN X1824 was (and perhaps still is, renumbered, on the BNSF) a water tank car built from a tender from a GN 4-8-4 S-2. It was a welded Vanderbilt.
As X1824, it had a single brake wheel. It was mounted at the outer edge of the old tender deck. It was very similar to the style and placement shown here:
http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATH74011
Ed
Gidday, this may help. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1180429
Cheers, the Bear
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If you go to www.rr-fallenflags.org and scroll down to "Reading (RDG)" , then down to "Freight Equipment", then down to "Tend 90691" there is a picture of a Reading tender converted to a water car. The Ajax hand brake can be seen mounted on the rear end, although the wheel is missing in the photo. IINM this car is still in existence at the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society Museum at Hamburg, PA.
Not all tenders needed brakes.
I have seen a few where the tanks were removed from the frames and mounted on a retired flat with some pumps and spray bars used in weed spraying. One of my TKM #70 has a kitbash of a foamite car used for fire fighting. http://www.prrths.com/Keystone%20Modeler/Keystone_Modeler_PDFs/TKM%20No.%2070%20Summer%202009.pdf
Pete
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A little more work turns up a shot of the ex-tender I was talking about:
And here's a littler one: