Herb Kelsey Wrote:
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> They were all wooden with three windows on a side
> and peaked roofs. Later modified to the two
> window sides and round roofs. With the exception
> of the 346 and her all steel cab, all of the
> engines had wooden cabs until the end of their
> Colorado service. The steel sides under the
> windows was merely sheathing, covering over the
> wood sides for better painting and to replace
> rotted side boards. The two engines at Knott's
> Berry Farm have all steel cabs but they were
> installed by the Farm.
>
> As to tenders they were interchangeable and if you
> are modeling go with photos. No standards but
> whatever was available. If an engine went into
> the shop or it's tender was wrecked it might swap
> out with another.
>
> 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.
>
> So they swapped around a lot.
346's tender received a complete rebuild at Strasburg PA along with 346. Tender tank was rebuilt with stainless steel
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