Second FES locomotive- Was: Added weight plates?
| July 30, 2023 08:17PM |
See attached- I ran across a photo of FES Cooke 2-8-0 #5 sporting a very similar feature in a time before the electric headlamp and front knuckle coupler were installed. This one really looks like tankage of some sort.
A comparison of the attached photo with the one of FES #5 credited to Ed Lohr in Gerald M. Best’s Oct 1960 Central American Holiday shows the same locomotive in different eras- The 1960 published photo shows a slightly shorter smokebox with the rods affixed to the smokebox higher and at a different angle down to the front deck, a knuckle coupler on the front, a smaller headlamp and a generator right behind it, and a visible, more or less conventional oil bunker in the tender.
In the attached photo there seems to be either a much smaller oil bunker in the tender or none at all- It looks like it still has coal boards but no coal in evidence. It makes me wonder whether they were experimenting with oil fuel here and hadn’t converted the tender over to oil as yet but were carrying it in tanks atop the boiler. Seems not too great for range between refuelings for a road locomotive, but I suppose it could work on a yard switcher....
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2023 10:15PM by Wayne Sanderson.
A comparison of the attached photo with the one of FES #5 credited to Ed Lohr in Gerald M. Best’s Oct 1960 Central American Holiday shows the same locomotive in different eras- The 1960 published photo shows a slightly shorter smokebox with the rods affixed to the smokebox higher and at a different angle down to the front deck, a knuckle coupler on the front, a smaller headlamp and a generator right behind it, and a visible, more or less conventional oil bunker in the tender.
In the attached photo there seems to be either a much smaller oil bunker in the tender or none at all- It looks like it still has coal boards but no coal in evidence. It makes me wonder whether they were experimenting with oil fuel here and hadn’t converted the tender over to oil as yet but were carrying it in tanks atop the boiler. Seems not too great for range between refuelings for a road locomotive, but I suppose it could work on a yard switcher....
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2023 10:15PM by Wayne Sanderson.
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