Rusting in the flowers....Tender for State Belt #4

This is the (rusting) tender for State Belt locomotive #4. Across the road is the actual locomotive which is being restored. Built and arriving in July 1911, the 0-6-0 steamer #4 was purchased by the State run waterfront Belt Line-or switching railway. In the golden years of San Francisco's railroads, this loco took boxcars of freight on and off the piers as they were dropped off by rail ferries to the industries in San Francisco. In 1932 it was sold to a Modesto railroad but returned to the bay again in late 1930's, working at the World's Fair on Treasure Island. It was never scrapped and ended up in the state of Utah. It was returned to San Francisco where an ambitious volunteer group is diligently working on its restoration. This is the tender for that loco.