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Maybe this is just a balmy idea...
Has anyone ever tried to use two full tanks connected in series? On first blush it seems a shame to give up the reasonable-but-not-large-enough tank in the cab and replace it with one modestly larger in the tender. Is there any way to series one into the other to get a substantial gain in capacity? Is this even a reasonable thing to consider? I'm not sure how to get effective gas/fluid exchange between the tanks. Would you want to feed vapor from the tender tank forward into cab tank, or would vapor not transfer due to the pressure differential.
In a similar vane, it seems that it would be advantageous to have an off-engine auxiliarly fuel tank that could be used during intial warming so that you could leave the steam-up bay with a full fuel tank. (At present, I shut down the burner after warming and clearing the cylinders to refill the fuel, then fire up again before moving out. Certainly doable but a bit of a pain.) It seems to me that there should be some way to use a quick-disconnect line to allow safely disconnected an auxiliarly tank when everything is ready to go.
Please don't flay me too badly if these are just a stupid ideas.
Joe

Has anyone ever tried to use two full tanks connected in series? On first blush it seems a shame to give up the reasonable-but-not-large-enough tank in the cab and replace it with one modestly larger in the tender. Is there any way to series one into the other to get a substantial gain in capacity? Is this even a reasonable thing to consider? I'm not sure how to get effective gas/fluid exchange between the tanks. Would you want to feed vapor from the tender tank forward into cab tank, or would vapor not transfer due to the pressure differential.
In a similar vane, it seems that it would be advantageous to have an off-engine auxiliarly fuel tank that could be used during intial warming so that you could leave the steam-up bay with a full fuel tank. (At present, I shut down the burner after warming and clearing the cylinders to refill the fuel, then fire up again before moving out. Certainly doable but a bit of a pain.) It seems to me that there should be some way to use a quick-disconnect line to allow safely disconnected an auxiliarly tank when everything is ready to go.
Please don't flay me too badly if these are just a stupid ideas.
Joe