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Fuel Tender 23-C-GTE
Fuel Tender 23-C-GTE
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tjsmrinfo
Member since
September 2003
From: sherman,tx
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Posted by
tjsmrinfo
on Saturday, December 24, 2005 1:33 PM
try the up historical site for more information.
tom
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jrbarney
Member since
January 2002
1,132 posts
Posted by
jrbarney
on Friday, December 23, 2005 12:59 PM
Peter,
I'm certainly not a UP expert, but here is an excerpt from a posting by
Banger11
in June of this year in an earlier thread on gas turbines:
" The Tenders were added to the small turbines about 1955 after three years of use to increase their distance between fuel stops. Bunker C was the normal fuel and the first tenders were made by splicing two of the 4-12-2, 9000 tenders together as the 9000 class was scrapped starting in 1953 to 1956 or so.
The first of the 61 class received its tender from an 800 FEF-1 class and it was different from the other standard and Veranda's. The 1-30 class turbines all had fuel tenders converted from the FEF-1 class since they were going out of service by 1958 and several of the FEF-1's got the 23000 gal tenders from the 2 and 3 class after 1956 as they were sidelined. This was a way to use the tenders with the standard trucks and not the centipede trucks for the turbines. "
It might give you a new starting point - there might be plans available for the 4-12-2 tenders. Possibly the NMRA's
Kalmbach Memorial Library
:
http://www.nmra.org/library/
can assist you in your search. Their rates are reasonable, even if you're not a member.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543
"Time flies like an arrow - fruit flies like a banana." "In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is strength. In water there is bacteria." --German proverb
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rrandb
Member since
December 2001
From: K.C.,MO.
1,063 posts
Posted by
rrandb
on Friday, December 23, 2005 2:15 AM
Acording to UP's web site Gas turbine's #26 & 26B are at the Ogden Union station in Ogden UT. If you are refering to the tenders if I remember correctly they were converted steam tenders and it is very doubtful there were any drawings made as I beleive they were converted by UP's shops. The drawings would have been in the shop foremans head. It was not uncommon for each one to be a little different as they found a better way as they went along. Factories need drawings, shops just needed to "Gitter dunn Boys". I am sure there is someone more intimate with UP that can supply more detailed information!!! [2c]
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oldsam_de
Member since
November 2003
20 posts
Fuel Tender 23-C-GTE
Posted by
oldsam_de
on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:24 AM
Hi folks,
i´am looking for original drawing of the UP ext. Fuel Tender which were on their Gas Turbines.
For Example 22-C-GTE,
23-C-GTE ,
25-C
or 24-C-GTE
Is there someone who can tell me where i can get original drawings or copys of it.
I had several pictures of these tenders but no drawing.
Many greetings and merry X-mas to all
Peter
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