The picture you show a link to is a WM Decapod which is not a PRR I-1. The second run of the I-1’s are supposed to have the same tender as the M-1 A did. The larger 8 whl. version was alot more common and hopefully they will offer this one as well.
------------------ Ken McCorry
Thank you for your answer KemacPrr, I am not sure about the differences between a PRR Decapod and a WM decapod (Not the Russian… way too heavy for a Russian).
It should be easy enough for PCM (Aka BLI) to perhaps swipe a batch of M1a or even J1 tenders and snap them to the 2-10-0’s except I see that the WM version has a fish belly frame.
I am very interested to see what comes out of the factory.
the difference is small no doubt and would not be that obvious. The coal loads and water seems to vary among the three tenders and that shows up in the overall shape if you look close.
The M1 standard tender is a much older design and has less coal capacity, but some of the I1’s might have received the extra large tenders from some of the out of service J1’s in 55 or 56. There are a few pictures in Pennsy books that do not looke exactly like the run of the mill large tenders for the I1.
I am currently working on a kitbash of an I1 in N-Scale, so I also came across the write-up at the Precision Scale website on their HO version. However, from what some of you have said, and from what I see on their historical write-up, I am more confused than ever about the tenders. At http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/,
you can find a number of drawings of different I1 versions. They seem to have:
90F82 - short tender, 4-wheel trucks
130F82a - slightly longer version of the above, still 4-wheel trucks
180F82 - “long distance” tender, but this is the 6-wheel truck version, not the 8-wheel, and it
is STILL not the bigger 210F75 one used on the M1.
The 180F82 is about 6 feet shorter than the 210, and more noticeably, it’s coal bunker is
short, only about 3 feet longer than the one on, say a K4 tender, whereas the 210 had
a coal bunker that was about half the length of the entire tender.
Looking at books like Pennsy Steam A to T (by Carleton) shows I1 locomotives with
all sorts of short and long tenders. What’s with the 180 series tenders? Did they get replaced quickly by the 210?
PRR I1 had a Belpaire firebox (squared-off top rear of boiler,) like most PRR-designed power.
WM decapod had a radial-stayed firebox (round rear boiler top.)
Neither one can successfully masquerade as the other, regardless of what tender they happen to be dragging around. Conversion would be a major kitbashing project.