Non - Stop BRISTOLIAN 17/4/2010!

Just as it should be then......green lights all the way !!!!!

 

Brilliant suggestion.

Have you ever seen the photos of road milk tankers on special carriage trucks coupled inside Princesses on the Mid Day Scot in the 30's?

 

Watching the abysmal performance on top gear, I doubt whther it would get as far as Old Oak Common West before Clarkson expired.

 

Equally important is to make sure the TOP of the extra tanks is level with the tender tank top. Otherwise you'll create a system you can't fill right up. (This actually happened on an American plant I was involved with. They wanted more liquid storage capacity, but lacked headroom, so they put in a new wide but dumpy tank next to the tall narrow one already existing, then put a balance pipe between the two. They then left them to fill, only the high level trip was on the tall tank. Several hours later, as the fill pumps were still running, they went out to check and found a nice lake forming, with the new dumpy tank overflowing like mad - whoops!)

 

.... but you wouldn't fill a tank 100% full, need to allow for expansion etc.

 

Not that i think it is the answer, but more out of curiousity, what would the capacity of a six wheel milk tank with baffles added roughly be ?, could be an interesting proposal for the future.

 

Why a milk tanker? Why not a recently disposed of oil tanker and paint it in United Dairies livery. What kind of speed restrictions are there on oil tankers?

 

Someone will suggest using an MGR wagon for extra coal next

 

Not sure of speed restrictions, but milk tankers are 6 wheel & oil tankers are 4 wheel if that makes a difference. 6 wheels are better for weight distribution (like tenders).

 

I was thinking maybe if it was a fairly modern oil tanker rather than a heritage milk tanker it would be easier to get it certified to run on the mainline

 

Good grief, where did you find out how we'd sorted out the coal problem? :gossip:
Now the only debate is what livery it should be in.
For me it has to be a nod towards the 21st century and First Great Western livery.

 

Trying to figure out this water and coal issue.....

There are a bunch of old C-130 Tankers around that could be used for a refuling probe and for an air-drop of coal.

The stall speed of an early C-130 is just under 100mph, so 5043 would have to be moving at quite a clip for the hose to stay in the tank.

The C-130's had a fuel / water tank in them that held 3,600 gallons - just perfect for a thirsty Castle!


Well - it's no more rediculious that some of the other posts! LOL

 

I like the idea of 5029 running parallel with a bowser of water for a while