What I see on that 0-6-0T is a oil bunker-see the square tank behind the cab? Notice the two doors on top of the tank.
Your tender isn't needed.
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I do not think that is a Bachmann engine but rather AHM, which came painted for the Hercules Powder Co. and some other road names. It may well be of an oil burning prototype although there is a hatch of some sort on the top of the bunker which could have accepted coal. Some of these little tank engines got their coal in buckets. But there were oil burning tank engines and perhaps at a powder company they'd be preferred over coal burning.
AHM later had an 0-6-0T of a different design (rounded water saddle tank over the boiler) with a coal bunker that extended up to the roof so that it could be coaled at a coaling dock.
Dave Nelson
cacole The angled boiler on yours looks like a locomotive meant for a steep uphill cog railway, and is nothing like the current model offered by Bachmann.
The angled boiler on yours looks like a locomotive meant for a steep uphill cog railway, and is nothing like the current model offered by Bachmann.
Yes its about 20 years old at least
Here's a better photo from the side
And although it does have a bit of a rake
I never thought it was that radical
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Your model locomotive looks different from the current Bachmann Porter 0-6-0T
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Your photo doesn't show the rear of the cab, but the current Bachmann Porter side tank does have a very small bunker for coal, similar to the current saddle tank.
Your model has subtlely different side tanks, is driven on the rear driver while the current model is driven on the centre driver and the style and arrangement of domes is different.
It may be an earlier Bachmann product. More recent models are more prototypically accurate.
M636C
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Yes its atleast 20 years old Here's a photo of the back and as you can see there is no Coal bunker or Door even outlined on the back
It was orignally labeled "Hercules"
May be just a lack of attention to detail By Bachman
"> I plan on making a cab forward out of this and have already wired it for DCC I'm currently using a Slope tender that i've added a porch with railings And a TCS 6 pin plug that runs under the porch into the tender "> But then got to thinking i should be using a Vandy Tender modified to carry oil if in fact this doesn't use coal I plan on using a Kemtron Brass Conversion Cab Plate To make the cab forward ">
I plan on making a cab forward out of this and have already wired it for DCC
I'm currently using a Slope tender that i've added a porch with railings And a TCS 6 pin plug that runs under the porch into the tender
"> But then got to thinking i should be using a Vandy Tender modified to carry oil if in fact this doesn't use coal I plan on using a Kemtron Brass Conversion Cab Plate To make the cab forward ">
But then got to thinking i should be using a Vandy Tender modified to carry oil
if in fact this doesn't use coal
I plan on using a Kemtron Brass Conversion Cab Plate To make the cab forward
C&O Fan MisterBeasley This is my Bachmann 0-6-0T: You can see the coal bunker at the very rear of the engine, behind the cab. Yes, it's very small, but these were not road engines. They would be "captive" in a small area, which would have to have a small service facility so the coal and water could be serviced frequently. Yes i can see the coal bunker But my loco is different it has 2 wedge shaped Side tanks and the cab is completely inclosed on the back the only way to get coal inside would be to carry it thru the door in buckets Here's a poor picture ">
MisterBeasley This is my Bachmann 0-6-0T: You can see the coal bunker at the very rear of the engine, behind the cab. Yes, it's very small, but these were not road engines. They would be "captive" in a small area, which would have to have a small service facility so the coal and water could be serviced frequently.
This is my Bachmann 0-6-0T:
You can see the coal bunker at the very rear of the engine, behind the cab. Yes, it's very small, but these were not road engines. They would be "captive" in a small area, which would have to have a small service facility so the coal and water could be serviced frequently.
Yes i can see the coal bunker But my loco is different
it has 2 wedge shaped Side tanks and the cab is completely inclosed on the back
the only way to get coal inside would be to carry it thru the door in buckets
Here's a poor picture
BRAKIE MisterBeasley They would be "captive" in a small area, which would have to have a small service facility so the coal and water could be serviced frequently. Just for fun information. A lot of times the coal was shoveled straight from a gon or from a elevated coal pile.Water coud be refilled by a fire hose hooked to a water stand.
MisterBeasley They would be "captive" in a small area, which would have to have a small service facility so the coal and water could be serviced frequently.
Just for fun information.
A lot of times the coal was shoveled straight from a gon or from a elevated coal pile.Water coud be refilled by a fire hose hooked to a water stand.
I can see how that would work on Mr B's but on mine they'd have to shovel it thru a window as their is no door opening on the back unless Bachman left that detail off
MisterBeasleyThey would be "captive" in a small area, which would have to have a small service facility so the coal and water could be serviced frequently.
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C&O Fan Were these supposed to be models of oil burners since they had no tenders for coal ? If so was one tank for water and the other for oil ? TIA
Were these supposed to be models of oil burners since they had no tenders for coal ?
If so was one tank for water and the other for oil ?
TIA
The tanks on the side was for water..There was either a coal,wood or oil bunker behind the cab.
Of course there was the fireless 0-6-0Ts that used stored steam in their side tanks.The tanks was filled from a steam pipe outside a boiler house.The" fireman" would connect the steam hose to one tank and then turn on a vavle and steam was forced into the tanks.