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Gas tender
Since there are tenders for mamods, and gas burners, has anyone made a tender for the canister, so there is more space on the footplate?
So the cannister would trail behind the engine on wheels?
So the cannister would trail behind the engine on wheels?
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You could do that. The reason gas tanks are often located somewhere on the locomotive is that the butane will boil better when the tank is kept warm, as it is on the footplate near the boiler. If you put the tank in a tender, you may have trouble with burner performance in cool weather. Some manufacturers of tender locomotives situate the gas tank in a bath of warm water in the tender.
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If however you take something like the Hornby 3 1/2 inch gauge Stephenson's Rocket the gas tank is well and truly in the "tender/wagon" with no form of external heating and this works very well. So yes, it's been done at a commercial level.
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Arthur, in short yes the gas tank in a tender works. I have recently rebuilt my locomotive 'Titan' into using a swift sixteen tender from a MSS one (for proportion reasons). The gas tank has always lived in a tender in this loco and I have never had any issues with steaming it. The point is that when you have a larger loco that has a higher gas consumption, that use of a higher quantity of gas causes it to freeze. With an mamod/mss derived loco the gas consumption is so low that you'll struggle to stop it blowing off and therefore hardly uses the gas quick enough to freeze. I can never seem to turn Titan's gas down enough!
This image shows prior to rebuild and clearly shows that the gas tank couldn't be further from the loco.
Arthur, in short yes the gas tank in a tender works. I have recently rebuilt my locomotive 'Titan' into using a swift sixteen tender from a MSS one (for proportion reasons). The gas tank has always lived in a tender in this loco and I have never had any issues with steaming it. The point is that when you have a larger loco that has a higher gas consumption, that use of a higher quantity of gas causes it to freeze. With an mamod/mss derived loco the gas consumption is so low that you'll struggle to stop it blowing off and therefore hardly uses the gas quick enough to freeze. I can never seem to turn Titan's gas down enough!
This image shows prior to rebuild and clearly shows that the gas tank couldn't be further from the loco.
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