auto-train
Steam Generator
131

Some of the initial generator cars were converted from steam locomotive tenders, as was #131.

Image: Stan Jackowski

Number 131 was former Northern Pacific steam generator H-2. I was built as a locomotive tender for one of Northern Pacific's class A 4-8-4 locomotives (all later NP steam classes had welded tender sides). It was produced by Alco in 1926-27.

Image: Goerge W. Hamlin

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