60008 & 60010/4489 a photographic collection

Afternoon all

On the eve of the great gathering i have added 2 collections featuring the 2 locos from N.America/Canada showing the progression through restoration at Shildon

60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/LNERSteam/Gresley-A4-Class/60008-Dwight-D-Eisenhower/25946564_xQDwkm#!i=2153364507&k=GgsnMXH

60010/4489 Dominion of Canada
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/LNERSteam/Gresley-A4-Class/60010-Dominion-of-Canada/25946577_rmJdg8#!i=2156710376&k=DNz2X9b
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/LNERSteam/Gresley-A4-Class/60010-Dominion-of-Canada/25946577_rmJdg8#!i=2452425184&k=hCPf4th
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/LNERSteam/Gresley-A4-Class/60010-Dominion-of-Canada/25946577_rmJdg8#!i=2521479898&k=WrPMTbh

Neil

 

Just to add to this, hope you don't mind


York - July 2013-004.jpg by grahamjenks, on Flickr


York - July 2013-002.jpg by grahamjenks, on Flickr

Both taken today, whilst Bittern, SNG and UoSA where all being shunter about outside and Mallard was on CCTV in the paint shop.

 

Brilliant, thanks for sharing

Neil

 

Together at last - all 6 A4s at the NRM 4 July 2013

The bold initiative of former NRM Director Steve Davies finally bore fruit this
week at the Great Gathering, when all six surviving members of Sir Nigel
Gresley's A4 Pacifics were brought together in the museum's Great Hall. This
vision necessitated the repatriation of the two locomotives which had been
donated to railway museums in North America in the 1960s, No 60008 Dwight D.
Eisenhower in the USA and No 60010 Dominion of Canada in that country. This was
achieved last autumn and since then they have both been bulled up to exhibition
condition. Meanwhile the three examples working in the UK were also booked to
join Mallard and their transatlantic sisters, in time for the 75th anniversary
of Mallard's world record speed for steam traction of 126 mph, achieved on 3
July 1938.

The NRM marketed special earlybird photography sessions for each morning of the
Great Gathering, and I secured one for the day after the official opening. Even
with only 50 or so participants, photography was still a challenge, but the
engines were well spaced out. Then the Great Hall overwhelmed with people within
five minutes of the museum opening to the public, so I felt lucky to have the
chance to take photos in the relative peace of the early morning.

18 pictures are at http://pjhtransportpix.zenfolio.com/p424434175

Peter, on a pleasant summer evening in Manchester
http://pjhtransportpix.zenfolio.com/