Re: Here Not There:4

Thanks James for bringing up the small tender, being built at the t-o-c they were quite well proportioned and thus good looking locos, but I was first exposed to the Vanderbilt tenders of the later A^B class since those were used on the Mainline shunts out of my first Depot. (in pictures, hung on the wall there).

A^B#751 at Woodville


A Class steam locomotive 178. Ref: 1/1-017780-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23047559


The range of the smaller tank didn't seem to cramp them on Branchline duties, of course there were the larger tender version built by Baldwin in 1914/15 NZGR class A^A and were quite similar in later years to the shape of those found in Colorado.


A^A class steam locomotive (NZR number 650, 4-6-2). Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-0213-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23083734