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Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by Swiss Toni, Feb 15, 2013.

  1. Swiss Toni

    Swiss Toni Well-Known Member

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    With the tarting up exercise now finished 60008 is being displayed alongside "Mallard" at the NRM, but what the hell happened to the chimney!!! :shocked: LINK
     
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    osprey Resident of Nat Pres

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    I noticed that, but thought I might be accused of being over critical. OK it looks awful, surely something could have been to improve it'a appearance?
     
  3. RalphW

    RalphW Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Administrator Friend

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    Yes it does look as though the paint has been put on with a tar brush, very strange that it has been turned out like that.
    But the most important picture, that majestic diesel engine. No doubt however there will be cries of sacrilege for sectioning it..
     
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    osprey Resident of Nat Pres

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    It looks like it's badly dented to me......and of course a high gloss paint will make it stand out more.....
     
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    Stuart, if it were advertised on a certain auction site, there would be comments in the advertising spiel like "L@@K", "pro weathered", "a unique opportunity" etc etc... :D

    Mark
     
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    Quite agree Ralph the sheer size of that engine is breathtaking!
     
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    That photo is bugging me so much now I think I'll send the NRM a tin of filler........it just seems to spoil things to my mind.....
     
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    Looks like it could be severe shotblasting damage to me.

    Richard.
     
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    I never thought of that......it must be very thin.......
     
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    Isn't an A4 chimney a very functional-looking casting consisting basically of the 2 orifices, with shaped tinwork round the outside? I seem to recall seeing photos somewhere in the dim and distant past.

    Richard.
     
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    They could have fixed it for just over four quid! LINK :lol:
     
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    :biggrin1: I like it.....
     
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    Deltic_Power_Unit | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    I bet they went through some hacksaw blades doing that!
     
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    Out of curiosity (and sorry for going a bit OT), what's the steam engine in this picture? 4472_NRM | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    No, not that steam engine, the other steam engine...

    Tom
     
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    Handyman - a 3 foot gauge Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0 saddle tank c.1900 from Scaldwell Ironstone Quarries. Part of the collection since 2007-8 and now getting some much needed TLC from the Tuesday Night Volunteers.
     
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    As for the chimney, shows how closely I'd looked at it. Never noticed until your picture! It's a copper cowling, and my guess is that it got like that when the whole loco was shotblasted in the late 1980s in the USA, the whole boiler casing took 9 gallons of filler to sort out.
     
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    Thanks Anthony. What's the history - I'm interested how you can acquire a new steam loco at such a comparatively late date? Where had it been before?

    Thanks

    Tom
     
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    It was listed as being at the Midland Railway Centre, Butterley back in the 1970's.
     
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    And had gone from there in the 1990s, sold to an Irish gent for a restoration that never happened. We bought it in 2008 or so when it was located at Alan Keef's yard after the Irish plan fell over. Always had worked as an ironstone engine until 1962, then preserved at Cyfronydd on Welshpool & Llanfair, then stored at Normanton Barracks, then stored in the undergrowth at Butterley station and put back together c.1990 at Swanwick Junction. Now getting the cosmetic job we always planned for it. And we've bought a loco or two since, so we're not a closed collection.
     
  20. Peter Hall

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    Despite being part of the collection it fails to appear under a search of Locomotives-steam in the 'Our Collection' section of the NRM website!
     

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