Auxiliary Water Tenders

Tue Oct 14 11:10:11 EDT 2025

Thanks Ken,

I had found a couple pictures (I can understand why at the time photographers wouldn't have used valuable film on the ends of water tenders) but shadows and colour depth was non conclusive, definitely something on at least one side.

I suspected it would only be one side so thank you for confirming.

It seems odd that Broadway would have modelled them correctly originally and then modified the tooling to make them incorrect for later releases...

I will modify mine accordingly.

Regards

Martin
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The connections were only on the one side as facing the tank, which was the left. Don’t recall seeing anything with connections on both sides.

Here is probably the best examples showing the end and water connection.

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=161068

This shows the connection on the end with the tank funnel

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=181226

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=53194

This one shows the opposite end, with the connection on the left as well.

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=24578

and a drawing

Hope this helps

Best
Ken Miller

> On Oct 10, 2025, at 5:26 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for clarity, I suspected so, I did watch a video the other night that confirmed it too.
>
> Development question, are connections on both sides of the coupler or just one? Given trainline hose always on the right, are the water connections on left?
>
> This has come from looking at some Broadway models and two have a single connection to the left of the coupler on each end and 3 have 2 connections, 1 on either side on only the one end.
>
> MartinFrom: NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org> on behalf of NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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>  Water connections for aux tenders were at both ends, so they could be oriented either way. (No need to turn)
>
> Jim Nichols
>
> On Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 02:03:25 PM CDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>
> Were auxiliary water tenders always orientated the same way around to the main tender of a locomotive? Or basically were water connections only on one end or both ends?
>
> I'm sure I've seen pictures of them in both orientations but not sure they were connected for service.
>
> I'm specifically talking about the converted 16k tenders used in the 50s.
>
> Regards
>
> Martin
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