{"id":3915,"date":"2024-09-29T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2024-09-29T12:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T17:43:02","slug":"fueling-the-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/29\/fueling-the-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Fueling the Tender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In October of 1940 photographer Bill Witbeck recorded this view of a small crane as it filled the tender of Gulf, Mobile and Ohio steamer #261 with coal. The crane still carries the reporting marks of its former owner, the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad. The GM&O itself was the result of the recent merger of the GM&N and the Mobile & Ohio railroads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Price tells me that the location is the Capitol Yard in Jackson, Mississippi. He speculates that the sign under the locomotive’s cab window reads “Save Coal” (an appropriate policy I think for the time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"GM&O<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I really love this scene . . . indeed, I’m considering adding such a “facility” to the model railroad that I have under construction. And I think I’ve located the perfect spot for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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