V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

Although building a V4 is not a new 'new' idea, it looks like the A1SLT is making headway, albeit earlier than might have been planned so I'll open the bidding on a new thread to cover Lot 3 (?) coming out of Darlington Locomotive Works.



Starting with some of the stuff accumulating at Hopetown....




You can read the whole news piece here.

Foxy

 

I'd rather they built a new cylinder bl0ck for Green Arrow

 

That's sort of thing Doulas Adams called an S.E.P (Someone Else's Problem).

 

And for the big issues and punch ups. What colour to paint it and what to call it? 'Bantam Chick'?

Looking at wiki it says this:

'The Bantam rooster is famous for its aggressive, "puffed-up" disposition that can be comedic in stature.' (I shall make no comments about it sounding a lot like a strand of people involved in preservation.)

 

Little Red Rooster. (green)

 

"Lightning"

And tie it into the new F35s being used on the aircraft carrier...Prince of Wales.

Thus we come full circle back to the aircraft.

Or, name it Pegasus. Just because.

 

'Pegasus'.

Me like.

 

I've said it before, there's only one Lightning when it comes to aircraft and it's this. [P-38 and F-35 don't count. ]
3403 in an interpretation of these colours and named Lightning would get my vote.
XN773 Bruggen 1970 by KING COBRA 92, on Flickr

 

A 'Like' is such an understatement when referring to Mr Teddy Petter's finest.

 

60163 Tornado- RAF aircraft
2007 Prince of Wales - Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier

Could 3403 have a name of something in the British Army, - challenger?

 

Mention of Bantam Cock always makes Jasper Carrott's work spring to mind...

 

Union Pacific already have that covered.

 

Gotta say, I like Pegasus...

 

Wasn't there a broad gauge loco of that name? I think I've a vague memory of an LNWR one too.

 

We have a beer for that... https://www.miltonbrewery.co.uk/beers/pegasus.html not one of my favourites though

 

A V3 sounds just about the right size of loco for the NYMR, if perhaps a little light footed.

If you want an Army connection, what about "Sergeant Whatisname"?
(Pharoah and the Sergeant written by Rudyard Kipling)

Cheers, Neil

 

'Pegasus' has army connections with The Parachute Regiment.

 

Surely it was Jake Thackary recorded it first, Jasper C did a cover version of it.
Who ever sang it, it was very funny and an accurate description of a Bantam Cock when full of his ego and hormones!

Cheers, Neil

 

With Mobil too. I've still got the tie to prove it ..... somewhere.

 

Rubbing a bit of salt in the wound there as the (now a thing of the past and replaced by the problematic F35) Harrier had a RR Pegasus engine