4-6-0. A number of years ago we stopped by on a road trip in Toppenish and looked at this. The guy doing the work was just mounting a new tank on tender frame. Old tank was out back, so badly rotten it wouldn't hold tennis balls.
The interesting thing was what the guy working on it had just discovered. The pilot beam had a big ding in in on engineer's side. So he cut the plating away and discovered a "modernizing" move at some point had covered the original pilot beam with poling pockets with heavy sheet steel, angled from coupler pocket out to the tip.
As you can see, the work done made the original beam with poling pockets visible again!
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