Hello All:
I am interested in the Broadway Limited Santa Fe 4-8-4 #3751, but I want a coal tender, not the oil tender that comes with the Broadway Limited version. Does anyone know where I could get a tender that I could convert or if anyone else sells a AT&SF 4-8-4 (or similar wheel configuration - like 4-6-4, 2-6-2, etc.).
Thanks!
Bob
Bachmann did produce a 3760 class which is now out of production but there may be some available second hand. It had an eight axle Santa Fe oil tender, of the type used on 3760, 2900 (4-8-4) and 5011 (2-10-4) types. I can’t recall if any of these tenders were ever used with coal, but it seems possible, particularly with the 2-10-4s. It might be possible to cut one of these down to a six-axle coal tender (which was shorter but similar width and height). The model was fairly early Bachmann, not particularly well detailed, but it was the right size with reasonable rivet detail.
Peter
The tenders used on the 3760 and 2900 class locos were oil burners. I take it that you model in the 20’s as that is when the 3751 class used coal. They were changed over to oil in the 30,s. Your only option is to purchase a used brass tender by Hallmark/PFM.
Ch
The 3750 class were totally rebuilt in the 1930s, with new, longer cast frames and larger diameter boxpok disc driving wheels. Only the boiler survived, and it had a much longer smokebox added, and the sand domes were radically changed. 3751 as it is now, (and as BLI are modelling it) never ran with the old type coal tender! The 1920s 3750 with spoked wheels would be closer in appearance (and size) to a USRA heavy Mountain than the present 3751 locomotive.
Peter
Bob, hell-o, I’m a Santa-Fe buff, if your’re modeling before 1936, coal is OK. If not vthe oil tender is right on the money. This info. is from the book “Iron Horses of the Santa-Fe Trail” by E.D. Worley. Hope this will help. Gary