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This is a reversing engine and the front wheels are on a bogie.                   \n2.  spirit burner, square steel body with a screw at the top, houses the fuel; from one lower edge extends the 3-wick burner which lies under the brass body between the wheel.  The square body is held under the driver's cab by two lengths of metal which swivel.\n3.  tender, steel painted black.  At the top is a sheet of metal hammered and painted to represent coal.  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