Bunker
The coal space, usually at the front of the tender; or just behind the cab of tank engines.
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Bunker
1. A bin, usually elevated above track level, used for storing and dispensing coal. 2) Fuel-oil or coal space on an engine tender or tank engine.
Bunker
Tank engines, since they lack tenders, have storage space at the back for fuel - usually coal. This is a bunker. Thus if a tank engine is running backwards it's said to be running bunker-first.
Bunker
1) A bin, usually elevated, for storing coal.
2) Fuel-oil or coal space on an engine tender or tank engine.
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Log bunkers, log fort walls, log cabins: 2 and less
Regular buildings: 1 and less
Stone walls: 3 and less
Stone fort walls, stone bunker: 4 and less ...
Ice Bunker (Refrigerated Car)
The compartment in which the ice is placed
Icing Charge ...
Coal Bunker - Storage bin directly behind cab or in the tender.
Coaling Station - A place where locomotives stop to take on a load of coal. The tender is positioned under the chute of coaling tower which supplies the coal by gravity feed.
The fuel is usually in a bunker behind the cab and the water in tanks on either side of, above, or below the boiler (respectively: side tank, saddle tank, well tank).
Tank Locomotive A steam locomotive where the water tank and coal bunker are built into the locomotive so a tender is not required. Tender A piece of rolling stock permanently coupled to a steam locomotive to carry coal and water.
Robert Francis Fairlie also designed a 'single' locomotive with one powered and one unpowered boogie and with a conventional cab at one end so can travel chimney first or bunker first.
They consumed huge amounts of "Bunker C," a thick black oil which was considered waste at the time and was initially very cheap. Heated tenders [to keep the fuel from solidifying] were provided for each locomotive, custom made from old steam tenders.
Union Pacific converted a fleet of units to burn Bunker C oil, a heavy, thick fuel during the 1960's. Bunker C was dirt cheap in those days, cheaper than diesel. This was the primary reason for the conversion.
HUT"Brakeman's shelter just back of the coal bunkers on the tender tank of engines operating through Moffat Tunnel. May also refer to caboose, locomotive cab, switchman's shanty, or crossing watchman's shelter ...
 See also: Special, Train, Force, Tank, Track
  
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