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SuperFudd

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Great photo! Where did you get it from?
That loco to the right could he 4449. We'll never know...interesting that it appears to be stored without it's tender though, was this common practice on the SP?
 
Reviewing an image enhanced using GIMP, the third digit of the number of the locomotive facing outwards appears to be a 2, so it is 442__. Immeidately to the right of that locomotive is another in daylight scheme, numbered 443_.

ns
 
In a cramped roundhouse sometimes just the loco was shoved headfirst in the stall, being repaired, as the tender would hang out, impeding traffic ... a battery powered pusher slug was oftentimes used to shift locos about.

A roundhouse was usually not for storage purposes, but served as protection from the elements to maintenance crews and their equipment.

A steam loco, without it's tender, could operate for a short distance, being filled with water, and a bed of hot coals
 
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Further to what cascaderailroad wrote, particular stalls in the roundhouse were set up to handle particular types of jobs. For example, one (or a few) stall(s) might have a drop table that would allow the drivers to removed so the drivers could be worked on; another set would have special machinery for work on the boilers, etc. A locomotive going into the Roundhouse for repairs might well be located in four or five stalls before being released for service.

There were also small steam and diesels used as shop goats to move locomotives around.

ns
 
Interesting video up there, shouldn't imagine it would get very far though... In reply to MeowRailroad, the Porters were tank engines so didn't need them anyway. Of course here in Britain we take the concept of tank engines to it's logical extreme...
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Of course the downside is that there is not as much coal and water capacity but as a relatively small system the Glasgow & South Western wouldn't have been bothered anyway.
 
Hence the "T" in the wheel arrangement. That particular JS Mikado hit a truck at a crossing, damaging her tender. During the time her tender was repaired, she ran tender-less, which was quite unusual for an engine with a tender.
 
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