Built by Bill Stewart at the Washington Iron Works and completed in 1976 and built to scale, shall we say 3" to the foot rather than the usual 4....
The Webb 3 cylinder compound and use of slip eccentric valve gear for the low pressure cylinder is a little peculiar in that the Dreadnought Class...
Divided drive on a B17/Sandringham, unified on a D49 and other Gresley 3-cylinder types. Axles cranked in order to give clearance to connecting...
The Nord 4-6-0 SNCF 240D (we used to have one, it was located at the Nene Valley Railway) was a Du Bousquet engine and certainly not a Chapelon,...
The original Pacifics were costed at a few hundred pounds each at the time. They were complicated largely due to French drawing office practice....
The French started experimenting with railway electrification in the early years of the twentieth century. At First came the phase of addressing...
You need to add the 90 GELSA locomotives built for Brazil. So I think that there were 548 but I could be wrong. He produced a range of designs of...
The 141P class numbered 318 engines and were produced by seven builders. The 4-240A and 5-240P numbered 37 engines in total. So far as Pacifics...
A simple posting along the lines of "I passed this on in good faith from etc. etc. -----" might be in order. This, shall we call it malicious...
I suspect that we will never see any accountability on the part of those making what were fictitious allegations w.r.t. this matter.
Gresley and Chapelon were very different people. Gresley was born in 1876, attended Marlborough College, served an apprenticeship at Crewe and...
However Chapelon was a bit of an outlier - his relationship with some of the railway hierarchy wasn't exactly smooth. Prove people wrong and they...
It is difficult enough to obtain car parts in this allegedly post covid world. And the quality of what you do manage to source is open to...
Inadequate exhaust systems remain a problem on locomotives and people still point the finger at the boiler as being the problem. SSC figures can...
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