https://www.steamlocomotive.com/whyte/2-10-2/USA/photos/nyow353-unknown.jpg
I lit that up for you.
BEAUSABRE The 2-10-2s were scrapped because they were hard to maintain and hard to run -- they required two firemen.
In addition to "Bullmooses" the NYO&W old-timers also called them "Mankillers," not because they were deathtraps, but because of the aformentioned reason. They were slow as molasses in January as well.
I see what you mean, anyone giving a cursory look to that picture might assume they're looking at a Vandy tender.
http://hawkinsrails.net/shortlines/sa/sa.htm
If you scroll down at that link you'll see a picture of S&A 4-8-2 445 with a tank car as a water canteen or auxiliary tender, with everything as neat and clean as an Augusta fairway at The Masters.
Perhaps the canteen was mistaken by some to be a Vanderbilt tender?
Here is a slightly different view of the same locomotive.
http://rlhs.org/Chapters/msc/ardrey/RSA445_1.html
I checked one of my books concerning the NYO&W, and from what I see none of the "Old and Weary's" steamers had Vanderbilt tenders, even the 2-10-2's which the O&W crews called "Bullmooses."
It looks like the O&W's 4-8-2's went south with conventional tenders.
Some, but not all, of the Erie's 2-10-2's had Vanderbilt tenders.
Does anyone have any photos of the Savannah and Atlanta 4-8-2 locomotives that were purchased from the NY O & W in the late 1940s? I read that some of the NY O &W 4-8-2 locomotives were given Vanderbilt tenders from their 2-10-2 locomotives as those locomotives were retired but I have only found 2 photos of the 4-8-2 locomotives in S&A lettering and both of those photos showed only the rectangular tenders.
Thank You
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