The Norfolk & Western attached extra water-only tenders - 'canteens' - to some of their A-class steam locomotives. If the engine needed to be turned, was the canteen turned (separately, I assume), as well, or did it have water connections at each end?
Connections at both ends.
oldline1
Just curious, but am I correct in assuming that the canteens were connected to the tender by couplers, rather than by a drawbar, like the tender was to the locomotive?
I added an extra tender, for water only, to my Bachmann 2-6-6-2, but for convenience sake, used couplers...
I had shortened the stock tender (USRA long version) so that the loco and tender, with the auxiliary one removed, would fit (just) on a 90' turntable.
Wayne
Thanks, I thought that was the case. I guess it would've been uncoupled and parked close by so that when the engine was turned, it would be re-coupled from the other end.
Good data here:
http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=23116
http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=53195
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/13/t/261054.aspx?page=1
Good Luck, Ed