Equipment Information

GTW 6323B is a “Vanderbilt” style steam locomotive tender. It was originally semi-permanently coupled to a steam engine and would carry water and coal to supply the engine itself. This tender was later used as a water car after steam engines on the GTW were retired.

COMPARE ME WITH: IC W4150, an older “standard” type tender. Tender 6323B is known as a “Vanderbilt” type because it has a cylindrical water tank with the coal bunker sitting atop it, rather than a square water tank with the coal bunker in the middle as on a standard locomotive tender.

Builder: American Locomotive Company
Year Built: 1941
Length: 38ft 7in
Width: 10ft 8in
Height: 15ft 3in
Weight: ??? lbs
Brakes: AB
Trucks: General Steel Casting 6 Wheel
Description: Tender / Class U (Vanderbuilt)
Arrived: 1994
Condition: Incomplete / unrestored / not operational

Ownership History
1941-c1961 – Grand Trunk Western #?
c1961-1973 – Grand Trunk Western #85451
1973-1994 – Private owner, Detroit, MI
1994-present – Illinois Railway Museum, Union, IL

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