How was coal transfered to the firebox since the tender was on the opposite side of the locomotive?
They were Oil-fired, there were pipes to bring the oil and water running along the boiler to the cab end.
OK, now I know. Thanks for the reply.[tup]
This is true for the Souther Pacific’s cab-forward-mallets. The Italian State Railways hat a serie of cab-forward ten-wheelers. The tender carried only water, the coal was in bunker in the cab. The engines had the nickname “crematory”. The Germans had a class-05-hudson-cab-forward fired with coal-dust. It didn’t perform well and was rebuilt into a conventional engine a few years later.