Re: D&RGW C-19 340-349

> An interesting bit of tender swapping is centered
> around 318 and 340 and ultimately the 346.
> Sometime in the 40's the cow creek tank on the
> Ouray branch burned and wasn't replaced. In order
> for a C class engine to get to water at Ridgway it
> had to have a larger tender than normal. The
> tender in question is the one currently behind the
> 318 at the CRRM. 318 was assigned to the branch
> with 340 as back up but 318's tender was one of
> the small F&CC versions. Whichever engine was
> working the branch hauled the big tender. When
> the D&RGW sold the 340 to Knott's Berry Farm it
> took 318's little tender with it and the 318 kept
> the 340's large tender. Up until the repaints in
> the early 1990s you could make out the "318" under
> the gaudy paint. When 318 and 346 went to the
> CRRM from Alamosa and the volunteers put 346 back
> in steam it was found that the 346's tender was a
> sieve! So they swapped the 318's tender, 340's
> old tender, to the 346 where it served that engine
> for many years until the recent rebuild of 346 and
> her tender.

Even before this tender was behind 340, she served 345; and on the C&S too:

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