@naresar posted:I have heard but was not able to back up is that PT stood for Passenger Tender. Regardless, it was the Central's term for the large pedestal tenders that also get called centipede tenders. It's similar to the tenders carried by UP 844 or UP 4014.
For fact the Central proper called them “passenger tenders” as that’s what they were originally designed to do, longer running passenger trains with fewer stops,…….the mainstay being to cut down the time from NY City to Chicago……
Pat