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BillD

February 22, 2008 03:57PM

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It's an air reservoir. Some of the PRR's H-class locos had that as well (as well as most of their A5s's and B6s's) My guess is that's where they stuck it when space on the side of the boiler was tight.

Bill Daniels
Santa Rosa, California

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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter

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