Re: 346 tender back in Golden

Thats an intersting thought, building a stainless steel liner to go iinside the tank. You would however have to cut the top of the tank off to install said liner. But from what I have read, there were other concerns, such as covering the whole frame in metal (I assume Stainless) so that water leaking from the tank (whenever that happens) would not rot the frame of the tender.


That was one of the changes that was made that was rather important to keeping the tender in service for as long as possiable

But overall I agree, a stainless liner may have worked. But what do the D&S and C&TS do with their tanks. I know 487's old tank is on a flat car, how was that replaced (or did they replace it with the tank off 483)? Did they replicate patches, rivets, or simply build a new tank

I personally like the idea of replicating the patches, other then us well informed railfans, the common visitor is not going to know the difference unless they go look at the old tank. I would be willing to bet most of the visitors for a long time have not noticed that the tender behind 346 says 318 on the back, and on the rear light. I did not notice it for quite a while (back when I was less informed).

We must remember, the museum is not just there for us to drool, its there to inform every day people what railroading was like 50, or even 100 years ago