Train Not Planes
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Trains Not Planes
No aviation content - so naturally it is grist for the Jetblast mill.
Take a look at these awesome snow plow pictures and videos at this site.
They were enough to keep me entertained for a while.
Please post any good train videos or links in this thread.
If a good whinge is all you want, please take it to the rant thread.
Cheers,
ABX
Take a look at these awesome snow plow pictures and videos at this site.
They were enough to keep me entertained for a while.
Please post any good train videos or links in this thread.
If a good whinge is all you want, please take it to the rant thread.
Cheers,
ABX
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sis,
Thanks mate, I had a really good belly laugh at your post! What a beauty - funny and true! Well done.
Was taking quite a bit of effort to keep this thread on the front page.
Thanks mate, I had a really good belly laugh at your post! What a beauty - funny and true! Well done.
Was taking quite a bit of effort to keep this thread on the front page.
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This three cylinder Pacific, named Dwight D. Eisenhower, is displayed at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
From:- http://www.steamlocomotive.com/3cylinder/#60008
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Please post any good train videos or links in this thread.
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Oh b*gger - I'm being sucked into this one......
Cap'n is right. It's an A4 Pacific, ex LNER (London & North Eastern Railway), built in Doncaster, Yorkshire in 1936. Another member of the class Mallard gained the world speed record for a steam locomotive of 126 mph. That record still stands.
The locomotive in the picture Dwight D Eisenhower is one of two A4 pacifics not in the UK. The other is Dominion of Canada which is in - yep - Canada.
Apart from Mallard which is preserved currently as a static exhibit in the National Railway Museum in York, there are 3 other preserved A4 pacifics which are all in working order and running either on preserved railways or on the UK main lines. These locomotives are: Union of South Africa, Bittern and Sir Nigel Gresley. The latter locomotive was named after its designer.
Phew!
Cap'n is right. It's an A4 Pacific, ex LNER (London & North Eastern Railway), built in Doncaster, Yorkshire in 1936. Another member of the class Mallard gained the world speed record for a steam locomotive of 126 mph. That record still stands.
The locomotive in the picture Dwight D Eisenhower is one of two A4 pacifics not in the UK. The other is Dominion of Canada which is in - yep - Canada.
Apart from Mallard which is preserved currently as a static exhibit in the National Railway Museum in York, there are 3 other preserved A4 pacifics which are all in working order and running either on preserved railways or on the UK main lines. These locomotives are: Union of South Africa, Bittern and Sir Nigel Gresley. The latter locomotive was named after its designer.
Phew!
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Oh b*gger - I'm being sucked into this one...
G-CPTN, thanks for the info, good reading. Very large cylinders on the old girl.
pigboat, thanks for the video link, it was very nice to watch that work-in-progress become a finished restoration. The guy that did the voice-over has an interesting voice.
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Gresley? Pah! Now this is a locomotive...
Sir William Stanier's masterpice 4-cylinder pacific for the LMS. Stanier learned his craft at Swindon on the GWR, then took his skills to Crewe on the LMS where he developed them to produce some of the finest steam locos ever. Many went on to be even further developed as the BR standard locos of the 1950s.
SSD
Sir William Stanier's masterpice 4-cylinder pacific for the LMS. Stanier learned his craft at Swindon on the GWR, then took his skills to Crewe on the LMS where he developed them to produce some of the finest steam locos ever. Many went on to be even further developed as the BR standard locos of the 1950s.
SSD
