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  1. Spinner liked torgormaig's post in the thread P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.

    I'm no expert in boiler matters but Bulleid as I understand it was taken by the American idea of Nicholson Thermic Syphons. These couldn't be fitted to a copper firebox as the ability to weld copper didn't exist back then, hence the use of a...

    Jul 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
  2. Spinner liked Steve's post in the thread P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.

    I don't think it ran without problems. From memory, it suffered stay problems almost from the word go. Didn't it end up going back to Germany at least once?

    Jul 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
  3. Spinner liked huochemi's post in the thread P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.

    Sounds like the 3801 saga.

    Jul 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
  4. Spinner liked 60017's post in the thread P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.

    Vorsprung durch Technik?

    Jul 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM