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I am looking for information and pictures on tenders that would have been used with I1sa's-particularly on the Elmira branch. Can anyone tell me what tender is represented by the long haul tender sent...

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Sorry, can't really help you with specific info on your question, but I can direct you to a site address that has general info on PRR equipment, and get you right into the section on...

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clhskybo,Please also see the following site, and open the (various) I1s, I1sa, etc. drawings. It's my guess that the Bowser tender represents the PRR's 180F82 tender. Most of these big tenders seemed...

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Thanks for your input, guys. I did get a chance to review NE rails website before posting the question.On page 203 of Pennsy I, top photo, there is a tender tied to an M1. What is this tender type, a...

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The long haul tender that comes with the Bowser I1 is a 210f82. PRR tender classes go like this: the first series of numbers represents the approximate water capacity, in this case 210 is 21000...

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Steve,Thanks for the information...shame on me for not investigating first. Sometimes I ask before doing a little research. After posting, I was on kc.pennsyrr.com and found a pdf document (109) that...

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How appropriate and opportune for this to come up! I'm working on an N-Scale kitbash of an I1, and I've been stewing about the tender. I've looked at the on-line drawings of the locomotive and the...

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Clarence Weaver's Ore Train 16 mm film, available on tape and DVD from Penn Valley Pictures, features quite a number of different I1s locomotives in service around Northumberland PA in the 1953 time...

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Class 180F82, tender #6000, was a 1 of a kind design. It was streamlined for use behind K4s #3768 when this engine was streamlined for the Broadway Limited and the classification changed to 180P75. At...

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Joe:Thanks for the info on number 6000, the 180F82.Did you get this just by looking at kc.pennsyrr.com document 109-K (Classification and Description of Locomotives and Tenders), or somewhere else?...

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Max,I have several 109's in my collection. The data came from one of them. Please send me a note to my work address of jacri@footlocker.com. I may be able to get some post war scanned images of the...

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Just for the purposes of discussion (I have NOT done my homework), it seems to me that the "one-holers" were the ONLY doghouses in use until the Js came along with their "three-holers". Also, there's...

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There is a photo of the K4 with the oddball long-distance tender on it in Carlson's book "Pennsy Steam A to T". I only noticed it now that I am keyed in on this issue. And definitely looks like the...

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"It would be nice if such a thing as a 'tender roster' existed - "There is an invaluable reference for 1948 tender class assignments in Owen Davies's 1972 reprint of the "Descriptive List of...

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That document is already posted to the web in many variations. The 109-L is from 1956, and lists only I1sa as being left on the roster (no I1s), and being fitted with either 90F82 (short) or 210F82a...

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O. K. Thanks re the 109-L; didn't realize that's what it was. I'm no Pennsy expert or freak but I've been following PRR steam for some 45 years or so and have most of the classic books and built an HO...

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A useful portion of 1952 Form 109-L can be found here:www.wsbcos.com/tenders.htmIn any discussion of PRR tenders, it really helps to adopt the PRR class system: (water capacity in hundreds of...

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Thanks, Steve! No corrections but, rather, another question for the cognoscenti.Back when Hector was a pup, I remember reading that some class of high-deck PRR tender had FIVE steps to the deck...

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Sam,I had replied to your query of 1/16/05 regarding "Loco and Tender Deck Heights", so this may be what you are thinking of. This thread must have been lost during the last internet attack on...

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