Semi-Vandy Tender ( Please add photos of your favorite Semi-Vandy Tender )

K-Line, who made an oil fired Vanderbilt, and a box tender, both for separate sale, and

the only one to do so, had those.  I want full Vanderbilt tenders in three lengths....the

fuel portion could be interchangeable, between oil and coal, to satisfy all customers.

(Vanderbilts appear to offer less room to stuff in the electronics some want....I could

not care less, but perhaps a longer version would have room for that)

Dave,

Southern Pacific had a good selection of Vandy oil tenders. Some were unique.(just a thought)                                           

Yes, definitely interested. I have a number of projects in mind, but the lack of a vandy tender has hampered the progress.

Would be able to add or transfer TMCC or DCS products? The New Haven had one with I believe six wheel trucks.

Here are two photos of our "S" Semi-Vandy tenders from a few years back. The new ones would be similar to this.

Dave, LBR 

Dave,

You have captured the uniqueness of the SP Shops, Good Job!

Pappy,

     Thank you. We try.

Dave, LBR

Don't forget your 3-rail Scale buddies, who will surely be interested in a slightly more accurate tender body.

This, I believe, is the full Vanderbilt style - an SP 120-C tender.  I think the 16000 gal tanks were the "Semi-Vanderbilt"

This is the smaller 90C style - as accurate as I could get it, with each rivet driven by a surplus Boeing rivet gun.

There were variants, mostly in the length of the water tank, from 70C to 100C, and one ugly version with a different oul bunker, now behind Mogul 1744.

You do realize that this tender is ONLY applicable to SP steam locomotives? 

Here is an unfinished 160C - a true "Semi-Vanderbilt"

Don't get me started on Haystack tenders!

Bob,

     What we will be offering is a basic tender that you can add your own features to.

Dave, LBR

Here is one for Delbridge:

That's the stuff Bob

Here's my feeble attempt at a SAL tender:

Here's one Ron Dettmer made from brass:

And the real deal:

Seaboard had quite a few Vanderbilt tenders and apparently different styles as well.  I'd have to look again but I think they had both coal and oil types.  Most if not all had 4-wheel trucks.

I feel mine sits about 1/4" too high, even though looking at some photos it appears to be reasonable.  So far I haven't been able to come up with a fix.

I'm not sure if Seaboard and Great Northern shared plans or ideas, but it seems like a lot of their equipment had a similar look, like the front-mounted pumps.

Flying pump, smoke box Elescos, and Vanderbilts were a feature of the C&O's well

known Pacifics and Mikados.  The Seaboard was a surprise to me when I first saw on

here they had many Vanderbilts.  There must be other roads beyond these, the SP and GN, that used them. I'd like to see a list of them posted on here.  Since I've favored them since the C&O, I am trying to provide all my "homeroad" engines on this freelanced layout with them, as a differentiating "styling" quirk.

Add B&O, Erie, KCS, Rock Island, and all the Harriman roads, plus some Mexican railroads and Canadian National.

Your Seaboard Mike is stunning.  I don't know Ron Dettmer, but his brass work looks top notch.  Can you post more photos on that high resolution forum?

Glad to hear about the Rock Island, I was aware the U.P. had them both for coal and

for oil.

I would be interested.

D500,

     What RR would you want it badged for?

Dave, LBR

One sure fire method with these to limit the market, is to limit the road name choice,

except for those of us willing to paint over it.  Usually it is only the small companies

like Weaver and K-Line that have offered unlettered rolling stock, while I ignore much

of what is in the catalogs because of lack of road name choice.  With these, many on

the left coast will want oil fired ones.  I will only buy coal fired ones, unless I see I

can easily modify and "correct" the fuel bunker.  The market needs these, but I don't

know if it will absorb both fuel types.

Is your tender going to be a full scale version or a semi-scale version?

I have one Lionel PW locomotive that someone gave me about 10 years ago. I had a local shop go through it and repair anything that was worn out. She runs great but needs a tender. I'm not sure if a scale tender would look right behind this semi-scale locomotive. As for road name if I bought one, either SP or Lionel Lines would do for me. Also do you have a price point yet?

Colorado,

     We are thinking about un-lettered ones with your choice of road name decals furnished with each tender or applied upon purchase.

Dave, LBR

Hudson J1e,

     Probably be a semi-scale 3R with an interchangeable coal / oil bunker insert.

Dave, LBR