PRR Late 40s 0-8-0 taking water

rhensley_anderson Oct 29, 2016

  1. rhensley_anderson

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  2. Hardcoaler

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    Looks like decal film surrounding the tender lettering. ;)
     
  3. Point353

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    File that photo away under 'There's a prototype for everything'.
     
  4. ScaleCraft

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    I'm not gonna argue, since you probably have more photos of this engine...but....decades ago I did model the PRR....as in, what shade of black is Brunswick Green.
    I cannot, at this late date, recall a PRR 0-8-0 with a small slopeback tender like that. All the ones my foggy brain remembers had rectangular tenders..the 0-4-0 and 0-6-0 having that tender pictured.
    Now, we ARE talking about "The Standard Railroad".....where really you didn't know what they were going to do next.
    Entirely possible that they put a slopeback on an 0-8-0 for a specific job.
    For my own edification and enlightenment, do you have a road number for this unit?
    Thanks
     
  5. Hytec

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    You probably are correct. The only 0-8-0 I found had a standard tender. The slope backs were supporting 0-6-0's.

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  6. Point353

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  7. rhensley_anderson

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    Hmmm. It does look like a 0-6-0 doesn't it. I just took the photograohers word for it. He was there, but it was a long time after he took the photo...
     
  8. Hytec

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    Now just for grins and giggles, Pennsy also had at least one 0-8-8-0 switcher.....

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  9. fitz

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    That's probably not decal film. Back in steam days, sometimes that's all that got washed, so that the road name showed up. Nice pics, all of them.
     
  10. acptulsa

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    Is that what that was? I always assumed that was a repaint, and they only washed the area where they needed the paint to stick. I don't know where I got that assumption, unless it's because I usually look at Santa Fe engines, and the Santa Fe painted numbers on the tenders and loved swapping tenders around.
     

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