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551:(some shortly after being built) and all Selkirks (5900 through 5935) were built as oil burners. The tenders held 12,000 imperial gallons (55,000 L; 14,000 US gal) of water and 4,100 imperial gallons (19,000 L; 4,900 US gal) of fuel oil. They had to be equipped with two pairs of six-wheel trucks because the total tender
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panels along the sides of their running boards, beneath the cab windows and on the sides of the tenders with gold leaf (originally) border trim (which was later changed to a type of yellow similar to "duluxe gold"). Some of the original T1a-class
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added an additional 12,000 lbf (53 kN) of tractive effort up to a maximum speed of 20 mph (32 km/h). Due to their extreme weight, they could not proceed west of Taft to
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