Dan Markoff Wrote:
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The limiting factor
> seems to be the tender. The 1200 gallons of water
> is not baffled and it sets up a side sway that
> literally pitched wood out of the tender. Not a
> good thing. Anyway, that side sway appears at
> about 35 mph and got worse as we approached 40.
Your tender capacity is interesting given the specification calls for the standard 1000 gallon tank. Modification carried out by the lumber company, perhaps?
I've noticed in period photographs from those very few wood-fueled narrow gauge railroads that also ran fast, the wood loads on the express trains are quite usually not heaped up all that high. It can be divined that they would have had to add modest amounts of fuel to the tender relatively often, not necessarily a problem in an era where the express trains still made frequent station stops. Coal-fueled roads didn't have that problem to such an extent for obvious reasons.