Postwar "Mutt" tender

trainman60,

It looks like you purchased someones fantasy piece. I suggest that you dig out your Doyles Prewar and Postwar Catalogs and do some "under-graduate" research. Someone obviously put a lot of work into your piece. By their doing so it left you with the larger but simple question.....  Why?

Take a look at this tender on Ebay.

The 2235W tender came in both die cast metal, and plastic.

Your tender looks like a plastic 2235W with it's trucks changed to postwar.

Look at this page for a plastic bodied 2235W tender

What you have is a Prewar 2235, issued around 1938 and typically went with a 225 loco.  It appears that the trucks were swapped to Postwar trucks, with the rear truck having magnetic coupler.  From your photos, it is hard to see what the front truck is, and why the previous owner kept the Prewar drawbar beats me.  If he went to the trouble of converting the trucks to Postwar, why not change the drawbar with the conversion?????  Is it diecast or plastic??

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If he went to the trouble of converting the trucks to Postwar, why not change the drawbar with the conversion????? 

To run it with a 225E.

The tender is plastic.  I agree he must have run it with a 225. I bought it from an antique dealer. Paid $47 for engine and tender.  I just liked the tender with those extra 2 grab irons on the engine end.  Confirms what I thought, but I learned something, never knew the 2235 came in plastic.  I will do a little upgrade and get a normal drawbar and just run it with the 1666.  Whistle is nice and loud and engine rums like a top  NOW hahaha  Thanks again  folks.