Equipment Information

GTW 85451 was built as 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 numbered 85451 after steam engines on the GTW were retired.

COMPARE ME WITH: IC W4150, an older “standard” type tender. Water car/tender 85451 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: Water Car/Tender / Class U (Vanderbuilt)
Arrived: 1994
Condition: Incomplete / unrestored / not operational

Ownership History
1941-1959 – Grand Trunk Western #6318
1959-c1973 – Grand Trunk Western #85451
c1973 – Hyman-Michaels #85451
c1973-1994 – Private owner, Maywood, IL (RTJX) #6323B
1994-present – Illinois Railway Museum, Union, IL

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