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I don't know about self propelled, but work trains with steam powered equipment would have: a) brought along "tenders" for the equipment, or b) ran a steam line from the locomotive to the equipment. The train may have had an auxillary water tender for the engine. I have seen pictures of a "fill" train that had a steam powered winch to empty fill from drop end gondolas. The ends would be opened, and a winch behind the engine pulled a scraper through all cars to dump fill over the sides of a trestle. The trestle then became buried in the fill. Apparently this was an easier, and faster way of creating fills. But I digress... Andrew
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