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I was told by someone with Project 819 that when they ran the engine, they can depend on a water stop several times in a workday. Some of these stops also inculded coal and lube for the running gear. I thought I heard 60 miles as the figure for water but again I wil have to look it up. Regardless, you can probably depend on the railroads preserving the knowledge of what steam engines are capable of doing with the coal, water and lube needs on a trip. I would doubt that they would actually send a engine out and not know where to stop. I have heard cases where engineers elected to take a faulty steamer out of town (Maybe the injector was not working well and repairs would be a unacceptable delay) with a result that sometimes they lost the engine and perhaps some lives. I was thinking about the Gettysburg Railroad that lost it's boiler after the water got too low and hurt the crew. That one was because the gauge used to measure the water in the boiler was not maintained properly and perhaps the crew did not have the resources to ensure that there was proper water in that locomotive while going uphill. Another thing to consider is perhaps rigging a hose to a nearby stream or water body to get the water to the tender without having to go all the way to the water tower. I had to do this several times in hot summers on my old 71 ford so long ago.
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