nyc L-3 tender

First, what is a New York Central "l-3"?

 

Second, I didn't know that the NYC used any "aux tender".

Thank you hot water.

My friend thought he seen one in York a few months back

but what I tried to tell him, that the L-1mohawk and lL-2 by nyc and

all the others by nyc did not have them. Thank you for your help.

          Mike.

So,,,,,you are REALLY talking about the "L Class" of Mohawk 4-8-2 steam locomotives. There just might be a former NYC "L Class" tender sitting around someplace. 

Yep, that's is what I am looking for!

          Thank you Mike.

Then you might want to revise/edit the title of your original post to reflect "L-3" instead of "l-3".

 

 

 

(Thank you hot water)

My mistake! did not make it a capital L

I hope everyone knows what I meant

          Love everyone. Mike.

One L-3 tender survives from NYC 3042.  After company service it was used as an auxiliary tender on the American Freedom Train.

 

http://www.freedomtrain.org/am...01-1a-aux-tender.htm

 

Today it resides at the NYC Museum in Elkhart, Indiana along with L-3a 3001 and its tender.

Thank you Ted.

My friend is looking for a 3 rail by mth.

          Mike.

So far as I am aware neither Lionel nor MTH have made an L-2 or L-3 based aux tender although MTH has made quite a few others.

 

http://mthtrains.com/prod-sear...iliary%20tender%20?f[0]=field_product_line%3A3934

Please remember that the New York Central didn't use Mohawk auxiliary tenders. The one "leftover" L Class tender was used for an auxiliary tender on the Freedom Train Reading 4-8-4 #1, however that was in 1975/1976 time frame.

Hot water.

He knows that nyc had no aux tenders, and that the freedom train used and

painted another tender for it's famous run. But he can use any Gs4 aux tender

and paint it, that to me is his only way, this man knows his history very well.

Thank you again. Mike.

Thank you Ted. I have done my research and I cannot find one either.

          Mike

For what it's worth, ONLY the coal burning AFT #1, a former Reading 4-8-4, used an auxiliary water tender, and only in the eastern states. That majority of the AFT "tour" was handled by former Southern Pacific GS-4 #4449, and she did NOT use an auxiliary water tender. The auxiliary water tender currently used by SP 4449 was made from an SP cab forward tender (#4219) , and was finished in time for its use on the 1984 New Orleans Worlds Fair Daylight trip from Portland, OR to New Orleans and return. 

Chessie System #2101 (a.k.a. AFT #1 and RDG #2101) also used the L-3 auxiliary tender when it pulled the Chessie Steam Special trips after the AFT had finished.

Hot water.

He did mention the t-1 reading aux tender on that trip.

I have a t-1 reading in my basement but with no aux tender

if I had one, I would sell it to him he is rebuilding the freedom run

the man is eighty years old and sharp.    Mike.

Mountain482.

Thank you for bouncing my memory around

I too love the mountain locomotives. Mike.

 

Thank you for the pictures.   Mike.

Holy cow; somebody needs a nap.

Dear D500.

Are you from Suwanee Ga? I have a friend that lives there

that would say the same thing God I need a nap!

Thank you Gregg.

I hope some more out there like it to.

          Thank you Mike

      

OK, I give up,,,,,,who is Gregg?

Hello,

There is a NYC steam generator car, that was converted from a tender, at Steamtown.



Thanks,
Mario

central fan197

Great pictures thank you, did they not  convert some of these cars

to battery type in the late 50s through the early 70s?

          Mike.

 

Hello everyone.

I want to thank everybody who helped me out on the L-3 tender

I got all the information I needed for my friend and he is also

thankful.See you guys later.  Mike.