mark s posted:The July 1987 "Model Railroader" featured excellent drawings of an Illinois Central 1500-series 2-8-2, including it's auxiliary water car ("cistern" to IC engine men). These cars were also used with IC 4-8-2's and 2-10-2's ("Centrals", in IC parlance)
You are correct Mark, as seeing the IC come and go at Louisville, Ky as a kid, you would nearly always see, as you said, the 2-10-2's, 4-8-2's, now and then on a Mikado.....This seemed to be more prevalent in the mid 50's, assuming longer freight trains during that period, and minimizing water stops along the way.
L&N, C&O east, and Southern east/west, Monon and B&O North no added cistern cars, or at least nothing that I ever saw, but I wasn't out there everyday......!
