Work continues on the tender for the F-1 steam locomotive. Because all details are visible and out in the open, i'm still adding a bunch before i decide to paint the tender. Turns out there was some electric conduit pipes running on the tender deck to a box. That box is visible on few pictures:
This picture is from a book "Only Yesterday on the Lehigh & New England", there is no author listed, but the time given is circa 1930. So that 401 is still new (delivered in 1927 along with 402). Another detail visible are the marker lights on the back of that tender, so i'll have to install those. Brass model pictures shown on the internet do not have marker lights on the tender, so sometime around WW II they must have been taken off. Also later post war pictures do not show those marker lights, neither on tender or the locomoive itself. My model will represent the locomoive as it looked like around 1928 as best as i can make it. Here i'm just starting to make the electric system:
On the tender deck are also rear coal wall brackets which i eventually soldered underneath that sloping wall.
And the conduit pipes and brackets in their places:
The conduit at the rear wall of the tender must have been installed for the rear markers, and that's where they will go. I've got to stop, this is insanity, unfortunately i can't leave that piping, like under boiler and walkway on the locomotive and pretend it's there
. Still to come both markers and front of the boiler details; hand rails, steps and coal doors. On the frame of the tender i still have to install re-railers on both sides and the push poles as one is clearly visible on that pre war picture.
...but during warm months from April to October i didn't touch it, so this will probably make a little over one year building this locomotive.
