Tender on a Work/camp train?

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There were still some of those things around when I hired.

Yes, they were for water (although I wouldn't want to eat anything prepared with weeks-old water from a tender.)  The water was probably used for bathing purposes.

I seem to remember that some of those tenders also had compartment built in them for kerosene.

-- abram burnett

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> Veterans, 

> 

> I noted a photo in Kenneth Miller's "Class J" of a work gang consist parked 

> on a siding that appeared to have a steam tender coupled to the rear of the 

> cars. The coal bunker end was close coupled to what might have been the 

> 'diner'. 

> I don't have a page number, but it's a couple pages just prior to chapter 

> 9, Disaster on the Tug Fork. 

> Would the tender have been used to supply coal and water for the cook? 

> 

> Thanks, 

> Dave Willis 

> N&W Steam lives on in Indiana. 

> 

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