As a modeller of the SP - I am always on the lookout for steam locos equipped with vanderbilt tenders. Other than the heavy mountain - what other spectrum locos have this style tender?
I understand that the tenders can be ordered seperately, but that would leave me with extra square tenders to sell or give away. Would the parts dept do a trade?
Does anyone have photos of this style tender swap they would like to share - along with any issues (such as wiring)?
Thanks
GC
I have attached a medium Vandy to an undec 2-8-0 for a nice reasonable SP locomotive. As the loco has the family look already, the tender ices it. I picked up a late locomotive with DCC and transferred the board from the square tender over. Pretty easy.
Two tenders and one loco = two railroads if the cab numbers can agree - with your own railroad, that's real easy. Remember, Bachmann has three "Vanderbilt tenders" - and one is no where close to what SP used.
Gene
Is there one that comes close? How about the parts dept doing a trade?
Is the one on the new heavy mountain dcc/sound the same as one of the tenders offered seperate?
GC
The small (they claim medium) is an SP Vanderbilt. One of these days I'm going to do new hand rails to make mine closer to C&O practice. The SP heavy Mountain has, I believe, an SP oil Higgins tender, which is, I think, a semi-Vanderbilt design.
Gene
I mentioned this before with no takers... but.... again.... why did Harriman roads use cylindrical tenders called 'Vanderbilts', and Vanderbilt family roads usually used 'Harriman style' boilers. A few vandies on a few Erie in late steam, what else in the east?. Is it all to confuse a young and friagile brain such as mine???? GC should be able to sell or swap off square tenders at train shows, if there are any near you.... water under the bridge, hang on to them... relieve the minotony for free someday, like Gene said, letter the square ones with your roadname, switch them back and forth, have fun with this stuff!
can anyone post a photo of the vandy and semi vandy tenders offered by Bachmann, perhaps end-to-end so one can see the difference in length?
A pic is worth 1000 words.