Safe to assume the red is an aftermarket fuel tank?
Wonder what happened to original.
Or is this the original fuel tank which sometimes was in cab and has been moved outside?
And note the extended coupler and knuckle pin lifter
(which probably has a proper technical name but I can’t recall it right now)
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/mvcx0.jpg
From today’s regular Friday update at the website.
Isn’t that a bottle of propane down below?
My guess is that the tank on the bottom is an air tank for the brakes. I also guess that the red tank is either for gasoline or diesel. That’s my guess since the tank’s end seams look rather thin and not welded and perhaps that’s a gas cap sticking up on the top; doesn’t look like a pressure fill type fitting. Whole lotta guessing going on!
-Damn - duplicate post.
I’m thinking the tank on the deck is for Sand. Both wheels have sander lines.
I’m guessing they raised the tank to make it gravity flow vs replacing an obsolete fuel pump…
The sand makes sense, the top of it looks larger where you could pour sand, and it also explains all the hoses near it near the bottom.
Looking at more of the pictures taken of that railway’s little diesels, they had sand domes, and usually on top of the hood. Putting a fuel tank above would necessitate moving the sand dome.
Greg
Want to say that I’ve read somewhere that as Plymouth did Whitcomb eventually dumped the sand dome and moved sand boxes inside hood.
Hmm, just found this, looks like same tank and brackets inside cab http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/splx2.jpg
I do know that a fair percentage of these little critters did have fuel tank in cab on what would be called the fireman’s side - don’t need a fireman so why not put fuel tank there.
One final guess on my part. The red tank appears to have darkish spill/drips down the center and a fuel line underneath. If you enlarge the photo (Ctrl +) there appears to be a glass fuel filter bowl that feeds the fuel line. The black cylinder with the silver top in front of the window looks like a propane tank similar to this and seems to have a hose going through one of the louvers. The sand lines near the wheels appear to be of a much larger diameter than that one line visible on the bottom of the red tank.
How about it’s “dual” fuel? (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
No dome on the OP, I’m sticking with a Gravity feed fuel tank… that’s a cheap fix (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-money-mouth.gif)
Wanna discuss the dual headlights, with the beacons front and rear …has polling pockets as well…but only noticed as I wanted to say “polling” and “pocket” spelled properly.
