Just published in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Facebook Page announcing their annual fundraiser
Look unless you are raising money to buy a tender this picture looks really bad as an example of what people will see in the museum display
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Not sure if this is suppose to be a restoration in progress or what. Maybe they need more pictures showing its condition and some showing what they hope it to be like when dome.
I am guessing its Architects rendition of what the new museum or improvements will look like. Sadly it looks like the illustrator was not train savvy and left off the tender. He was probably using a stock 3D image which didn't include it
Someone from the museum should have said something
The tender is still undergoing restoration.....that's it!
But you're more likely right....uninformed folks that think a tender is a 'Coal Car' that is optional.....
Kinda like the ebay text that say locomotive for sale....good condition....will throw in a free coal car too!!!
Maybe, they're going to build a Lionel Lines 2037.
Rusty
What's the problem?
Pete
I vaguely recall seeing that picture here on the Forum a while ago - maybe last year. Replies identified the locomotive as a Lionel postwar 2037/637 or maybe a prewar 226E.
My guess is that the Museum used this picture again rather than commission a new one.
Now and then a steamer was spotted in a roundhouse without a tender. Riding the Strasburg Rail Road, I have seen a tender from 31/7312, 89, 90, or 475 in the yard while that locomotive was being shopped.
I think the tender from the late George Hart's CP 10-wheeler, No. 972, is standing alone near P&R Camelback 0-4-0 No. 4 (1187). It is lettered CUMBERLAND VALLEY, the last place where No. 972 ran. The boiler for PRR Ten-Wheeler No. 39 is in that vicinity
I am guessing its Architects rendition of what the new museum or improvements will look like. Sadly it looks like the illustrator was not train savvy and left off the tender. He was probably using a stock 3D image which didn't include it
Someone from the museum should have said something
Maybe if you increased your donation, they could do a little better. 
If you walked into our little narrow gauge engine house you would see both steam engines without tenders. Hope they get them going soon. Don
Just published in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Facebook Page announcing their annual fundraiser
Look unless you are raising money to buy a tender this picture looks really bad as an example of what people will see in the museum display
I totally agree! Look closely at that "artist conception" and a whole bunch of things do NOT look anything like any PRR steam locomotive in their own museum. The front end, the lead truck spaced WAY too far forward of the cylinders, the trailing truck "bunched" under the cab, all that "stuff" up on top of the boiler, etc., etc., etc..
Certainly NOT very professional for a large museum.
You guys don't know what your talking about. Here's another picture of a real steam engine. I think the same one at the museum with no tender. Gee, you guys aren't very smart. Don
You guys don't know what your talking about. Here's another picture of a real steam engine. I think the same one at the museum with no tender. Gee, you guys aren't very smart. Don
Sorry, but that enclosure on the rendering's pilot is straight off a 2037.
Look at it this way, if they had a rendering of say, an H10, guys would be complaining it's not a K4...
Rusty
This is not the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum. It is the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
And preservers the history of railroading in the state of Pennsylvania and probably more.
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