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@Off The Rails
Well them being an oil burner makes sense as it didn't dawn on me that if it were coal it would be difficult to get the coal to the firebox since that is now in the front. Still all the pictures I have seen have the tenders looking pretty normal like coal ones except they are sealed where the oil is in one side and water in the other. Although I did see some unusual looking tenders like the one pictured so maybe Lexi follows a different design.

I did a bit more reading on Lexi's prototype and the trailing flatbed with the two tanks is indeed the tender. It was built in the shops of the North Pacific Coast Railroad on the chassis of a wrecked Baldwin 4-4-0 and is apparently the first oil fueled cab-forward locomotive. The cab-forward design was done to accommodate an unusual marine style oil fueled boiler. In NPCRR service, it was #21 and referred to as the Thomas Stetson. It had a fairly short service life, being built sometime after 1897 and scrapped by 1905, due to a lack of tractive weight over the drive wheels and a design flaw that placed the burners too close to the steam tubes, damaging them beyond feasible repair.