Were these supposed to be models of oil burners since they had no tenders for coal ?
If so was one tank for water and the other for oil ?
TIA
The tanks on the side was for water…There was either a coal,wood or oil bunker behind the cab.
Of course there was the fireless 0-6-0Ts that used stored steam in their side tanks.The tanks was filled from a steam pipe outside a boiler house.The" fireman" would connect the steam hose to one tank and then turn on a vavle and steam was forced into the tanks.
This is my Bachmann 0-6-0T:
You can see the coal bunker at the very rear of the engine, behind the cab. Yes, it’s very small, but these were not road engines. They would be “captive” in a small area, which would have to have a small service facility so the coal and water could be serviced frequently.
Yes i can see the coal bunker But my loco is different
it has 2 wedge shaped Side tanks and the cab is completely inclosed on the back
the only way to get coal inside would be to carry it thru the door in buckets
Here’s a poor picture
Just for fun information.[:D]
A lot of times the coal was shoveled straight from a gon or from a elevated coal pile.Water coud be refilled by a fire hose hooked to a water stand.[:P]
I can see how that would work on Mr B’s but on mine they’d have to shovel it thru a window as their is no door opening on the back unless Bachman left that detail off
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MisterBeasley
This is my Bachmann 0-6-0T:
You can see the coal bunker at the very rear of the engine, behind the cab. Yes, it’s very small, but these were not road engines. They would be “captive” in a small area, which would have to have a small service facility so the coal and water could be serviced frequently.
Yes i can see the coal bunker But my loco is different
it has 2 wedge shaped Side tanks and the cab is completely inclosed on the back
the only way to get coal inside would be to carry it thru the door in buckets
Here’s a poor picture
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The angled boiler on yours looks like a locomotive meant for a steep uphill cog railway, and is nothing like the current model offered by Bachmann.
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Your model locomotive looks different from the current Bachmann Porter 0-6-0T
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Your photo doesn’t show the rear of the cab, but the current Bachmann Porter side tank does have a very small bunker for coal, similar to the current saddle tank.
Your model has subtlely different side tanks, is driven on the rear driver while the current model is driven on the centre driver and the style and arrangement of domes is different.
It may be an earlier Bachmann product. More recent models are more prototypically accurate.
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Yes its atleast 2
Yes its about 20 years old at least
Here’s a better photo from the side
And although it does have a bit of a rake
I never thought it was that radical
I do not think that is a Bachmann engine but rather AHM, which came painted for the Hercules Powder Co. and some other road names. It may well be of an oil burning prototype although there is a hatch of some sort on the top of the bunker which could have accepted coal. Some of these little tank engines got their coal in buckets. But there were oil burning tank engines and perhaps at a powder company they’d be preferred over coal burning.
AHM later had an 0-6-0T of a different design (rounded water saddle tank over the boiler) with a coal bunker that extended up to the roof so that it could be coaled at a coaling dock.
Dave Nelson
What I see on that 0-6-0T is a oil bunker-see the square tank behind the cab? Notice the two doors on top of the tank.
Your tender isn’t needed.
Yes you are right it was also offered by AHM and even in the Hercules Decal But this says Bachman on the bottom
Yes there’s a very small door/Hatch on the left side top But so small it would onlyaccept one shovel at a time
If Hercules was a powder company I’m betting it was an oil burner
Kinda what i thought Too but i need the tender for the decoder and speaker
The question Is ~~~~Slope or Vandy ? an if it is an oil burner then i need a Vandy Oil Tender
That looks like a european engine and the coal would enter in that little hatch on top of the back if it is the one I am thinking about.
If you like the slope-back tender, you can build an oil bunker.
Ed
My road had a need for a small loco but running though a wooded area that tended to be dry. so a 0-6-0T was turned and converted into a 2-6-0, oil burner with an old short Vandy tender.The front headlight was left in place.
Decent size air pump added.
Tsunami sound.
Rich
Google it. You will come up with many, many examples and links to store in Favorites.
Rich
In the olden days you could buy MDC / Roundhouse tenders as separate kits. I know at least one of them (the small vanderbilt) could be made to carry coal or oil, as it came with a cover piece over the coal bin area. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of their other tenders had something similar. Might be able to find one on ebay or a local RR fleamarket.
BTW steam engines need quite a bit more water than fuel. In a typical steam loco tender, the coal or oil is only about 1/4th or 1/3rd of the tender, the rest is water.
“If Hercules was a powder company, I’m betting it was an oil burner.”
Actually, I’m betting the Hercules lettering was made up by some marketing guy, and the prototype loco had nothing to do with Hercules in real life. A fireless engine would probably have been a more likely choice for an engine that operated near the production area of an explosives plant.
Now, here’s a question: Why doesn’t some manufacturer make a model of a fireless steam loco?