Re: After the WHR - what next?
- From: azb@xxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Robert Breen)
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:41:02 +0000 (UTC)
In article <cRgXoNCcf00GJw5Y@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sue McNaughton <Sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <13d656dansvbi3b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Arthur Figgis
<afiggis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Two, actually. First the N Class, then when that one went into the
No no no. James the Red Engine, Gordon the Big Engine. Edward is blue.
There is/was a real loco painted red as James on the Mid Hants.
overhaul queue the U Class. Which is now also in need of overhaul, so
although the railway now has two Jameses (I don't think either has been
repainted out of red) neither is actually operational at present. What
generally happens now at the Thomasfest is that one is put in the yard
as a static exhibit, and the other has to be carefully hidden!
And neither of them are terribly suitable for the role, being
outside-cylinder engines.
Is there any way to use this as a lever to re-create a Big Austrian?[1]
[1] Peter Drummond's superheated goods engine for the Glasgow & South
Western[2],[3]
[2] A railway which has no representitive examples of its practice
preserved (one Pug, from a railway which shunned Pugs).
[3] But it can have cottared big ends. I'll not insist on authenticity
there..
--
Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)
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