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To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 10:42 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Oriental Limited tender on eBay
> Right now there is a Burlington Route "converted R2" tender on eBay for
sale
> from Oriental Limited. Can anyone tell me what in the world this was used
> for? Man I wish I was able to buy brass back in the '80s when Oriental
> Limited was doing all sorts of "Q" brass.
>
It wouldn't have been an R-2 (Prairie) tender as-built . . . those were the
shorty style on express trucks, like the NPP K-2 tender. This one appears
to represent a standard roll-top tender, such as supplied on S-1s and S-2s
or R-4s and R-5s, which has had the "roll" replaced with straight coalboards
for switcher service.
Marshall
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