FR's "Mountaineer"

Couldn't have put it better myself, it's neither pretty nor a brute, and that makes it quite simply hideous.

 

You forgot the IMHO.

 

Bit unfair to call Lyd a 'Southern Monstrosity' considering the Manning Wardles and L&B were around long before the Southern existed, having copper capped chimney's proves they are stylish things and had the misfortune of being absorbed by an inferior railway at the Grouping

 

We'll quite happily have her at the L&B - with the Transport and Works order in preparation we should have a longer line for her to run on in the future!

 

Oh No! Yet more tribalism.

P.H.

 

The better project would be to return it to it's WW1 as built condition as a recognition of those who suffered/died in the Great War in time for the anniversary in 2014

 

Says 'Southern' in big letters on the side.

Anyway, I'm only expressing a personal preference. Lets face it, there are strange people who think a Castle is better looking than an A3 <GD&R>.

Seriously, I'd rather have ANY steam engine than none, I just happen to be, for several reasons, particularly fond of Mountaineer.

 

Wasn't Silly Billy referring to Lyd in that comment, not the Alco? That is how I read it, anyway.

 

See the post that he was replying too