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S160 5820

Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by class8mikado, Oct 22, 2013.

  1. class8mikado

    class8mikado Part of the furniture

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    Hijacking the first S160 thread i can find :
    the latest id carried by 5820 at the KWVR is worth a chuckle - BR unlined black, early emblem No 95820
     
  2. MuzTrem

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    I'm not usually a fan of BR liveries, especially on locos that never carried them in service...but I have to concede that looks rather smart!

    Dare I ask whether she is actually running again, or is there more still to do?
     
  3. mickpop

    mickpop Resident of Nat Pres

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    A great look for a handsome locomotive - gets my vote!
     
  4. Duty Druid

    Duty Druid Resident of Nat Pres

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    Seconded !! :)

    Though I do have a soft spot for the U S transport corps livery she carried.................................................. ;)
     
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    looks good !
     
  6. Martin Perry

    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    Personally I would rather have seen it in a US line livery, PRR or NYC maybe.
     
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    Looks the dogs danglies, but I'm more interested in how she goes ;)
     
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    Hopefully like the CVR ones, won't win any beauty prizes but makes the ears bleed.
     
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    This thread just got more interesting!

    Although it is interesting to see the total lack of indignation at a loco being painted in 'the wrong' livery, have the fundamentalists gone into hibernation waiting for 4472? ;)
     
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    I assume from the photo that one of those hoses hanging from the buffer beam is for steam heat, does that make it a mixed traffic loco now? If so, shouldn't it be in lined black? Would look rather good I think.
     
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    Not sure I agree - I find big chunky workhorses as attractive as the clean lines of a passenger thoroughbred.

    As to livery there is a big choice given they worked all over Europe and several Asian countries- and not all black . I have seen them in brown and other colours in India.
     
  12. Bramblewick

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    I'm told it was done for a bit of fun, and that she'll stay in BR livery for one month for every complaint they receive about it.
     
  13. Sheff

    Sheff Resident of Nat Pres

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    Where do I complain?
     
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    Here is as good a place as any... whilst you still can. Maybe 'Rio Turbio' on the tender next;)
    If the Mods ( those mods, not these mods) are effective she wont be making anybodies ears bleed at least...
     
  15. Bramblewick

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    Surely "Rio Wortho"?
     
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    ^ vg Bramblewick
     
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    I'd like like to add my voice to say it looks awful. If I repeat the post does that result in two months extension?
     
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    I bloody well hope so!!!

    It may only be a coat of paint - ( which is all you really ever see of a locomotive) - but it looks superb!! If I revert this post into a whinging trainspotter moan, is that worth another month??

    Cheers

    Alan
     
  19. RalphW

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    Well I think she looks absolutely fabulous in that livery and I will continue to say so until the sad day it gets changed....:rolleyes:
     
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    Well, if all of us on here "complained" then she'd stay like that to the end of her ticket!......................................... :)
     

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