1Feathercrest wrote:
If the train is being pulled by a diesel, the steam engine is negligible/superfluous. I didn't see a coal car so what is providing the smoke, or is that also a fake? Steam engines were capable of pulling very long trains for more than a century before diesel was introduced. I rode steam engine pulled trains for many years from the Scranton, PA station to NY City (and back), years before the introduction of the Phoebe Snow diesel.
This engine is what is referred to as a saddle-tank locomotive. It carried its water and fuel (coal or wood) on the locomotive, it didn't use a tender. It was used as a yard switcher or maybe in logging. It wasn't used for long hauls pulling long trains. Most of them didn't have leading or trailing trucks.