For that money/time frame, I'd bet anything replaced was built as an exact duplicate except maybe better material. Besides, during it's service life of 60 years and 3.3 million km, I'm sure a lot of parts have been replaced... at least once. I wonder about the "blinders", they're on at Doncaster, but not in service or on tour in the US, although she wore a head light in CA.
Oh my, Boston in '69 was sweet.

It seems that the recent restoration effort has returned the loco to the format it had during its service with the nationalised (1947) British Railways, including smoke deflectors and serial number 60103.
Prior to that, it spent much of its preserved life as 4472 of the London North Eastern Railway.
I had a vague recollection of 4472 being stranded in the US when the owner, Alan Pegler, was declared bankrupt and there's a comprehensive account of that episode on Wikipedia.
Adaptations required for the US tour are listed as:

Flying Scotsman - Wikipedia.

You wait 10 years for a train… then two come along at once!
 

However Virgin Trains, having unwittingly spoiled the view, have kindly offered a trip to Atlanta courtesy of Virgin Atlantic.


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Daily Mail

Grasshopper kills 16 humans.

Ad for the Flying Scotsman...

Whoops. I wonder if they found him in the wreck with his hand on the throttle? :speechls:

This engine is in Switzerland and I'd guess it was used on a steep incline.

The nose is sloped, but the passenger compartment is parallel to the rails. It's a bit different than funicular rail cars.

I wonder if that's a passenger compartment, or the cab of the engine?

Ah, it's a camel engine.
So it was for inclines, but not the same type as the lenticular mountain climbers.

Funicular, not lenticular.

Yes, I was checking to see if you were paying attention... that's my story and I'm sticking to it... unless of course someone questions it, then I'll come up with a new one. :blush:

Heh.

I try to pay attention.

I guess this one is sort of a dirty kind.

Line 'em up... impress the press.

I stumbled on the B&O Museum in Baltimore...

Rail-Tank

A lot of towns and cities grew up as a result of the railroad. Even port cities welcome the trains right through town to the docks and waterfront warehouses. When the trains became dwarfed in presence and importance by trucks and automobiles, many of the surface tracks remained in use.

Everything has limits, especially pressure cookers and steam engines.

Pretty weird looking. I wouldn't have expected train guts to look like that.

That was one helluva train sneeze.

Your puny machines cannot contain him.

I don't know if I'd want them to go carefully slow, or get out of here fast. :haha:

Let's not forget Casey Jones, probably the most famous train engineer of the era. He died with his hand on the throttle and the whistle in his hand. Famous for his runs in North Mississippi with speeds exceeding 80 mph in 1900 and numerous songs.

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***NSFW Language***


Casey Jones was a son-of-a-bitch,
Drove his train into a 30-foot ditch.
Jumped out the window with his dick in his hand,
Said "Look out ladies, I'm a fucking man!"
He lined 50 women up against the wall,
Said "Spread your legs, I'm gonna fuck you all!"
He fucked 48 then his balls turned blue,
And he backed off, jacked off, then fucked the other two.
Casey Jones died and went to hell,
He fucked the Devil, and he fucked him well.
Little demons running up and down the walls,
Screaming "Kill this bastard, before he fucks us all!"


Or, something like that.

Doing the locomotion...

Back in post #27 we talked about McKeen light rail locomotives, some with oddball engines.
Well it seems the last one on the face of the earth has been located in Anchorage and shipped to San Diego to be restored. It had it's pointy nose cut off somewhere along the way.

They have a website to beg for donations and publish updates.
They're going to need a lot of it, they ran $2k over on just the shipping charges. I didn't see what the bill was. :rolleyes:

Think of all the rubber tires the railroad saves. ;)

That shit is heavy.

I was gonna use this for a post in "Where Is This - For Dummies", but, then, I looked at the engine again.

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Is it just me, or, is there something weird going on there?

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Pushing a load of logs.

And burning logs to do it, while going over a log trestle.

Sure, what else would a logging operation burn but wood for a steam boiler. Just like the coal trains burning coal. Using just the slash would provide plenty of fuel for the engine, cook house, and any other heat needs of the logging operation.

Interesting, these cross logs aren't whole trees, but sections of trunks. But the ones that show they are the end of the trunk show how much had to be cut before the trunk snapped off.

I'm impressed that they can use logs of different diameters and get a finished trestle that is level enough for a train to go over it.

I was thinking more of the wheel arrangement on the engine.

Looks funny.

It's a 50 ton Climax locomotive.

If you stay til the end, you get to see the 'engine'. The Emerald Night looks an awful lot like The Flying Scotsman.



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Well, shit.

Casey Jones on acid. :eek: Looks like part of that track is temporary. Cool how the tunneled under the fence and shit.

I am impressed with that dude's setup.

Very impressive.

The cats didn't think so.

No prolly not.

Yeah, the cats were like ho hum it's not eatable. :haha:

No sense chasing it...It'll be by again in a minute.

If you have a hobby you can't afford, round up some others who share your interests, then find some people who will put up money to have you stop pestering them. :haha:

The Flying Scotsman on the Forth Bridge...

Electric Nazi...

Looks like that plow/cow catcher, got a workout...

Damn those Nazis had style. If Trump's buildings weren't so tacky he'd have a good chance, but his name is too linked to chintzy.

-ish trains.

I wanted to fix that so bad...

Catalog of Railroad stuff...

I'd want one light enough to get the hell off the track in a hurry.

I learned from cartoons that they have a rail car that you move by pushing a see-saw up and down.

And confirmed by Blazing Saddles.

~Taggart

Street car sort of fits with trains...

velocipede via wooden pallet...