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Definition:A railroad car that carries fuel and water, towed behind the steam engine
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Behind the tender, setting the platform more and more slowly swaying, came the luggage van with a dog whining in it.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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There was a locomotive, a tender, and three little boxcars.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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John Taylor: The other thing about this is the combination of the size of the locomotive and the size of the tender —which holds 24,500 gallons of water— was to get a greater distance between water stops. This uses one hundred gallons per mile of water.
BBC. Great American Railroad Journeys: Santa Fe to the Grand Canyon (2017)
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