How to jump start a steam locomotive

[appleexpress]

I always wondered how steam locomotives were started when their batteries went dead, now I know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifReYvzGzc&feature=player_embedded

Cheers,
Ian

 

[ZecMurphy]

And if anyone wants the loco itself

http://zecrail.victrainz.com.au/beta_files/srv-r711-beta.rar

Note, it is a 'beta', and is for 04-TC1/2 only (it will run in TC3/09/10, but it's not been updated for these versions).

Sadly, R711 is still yet to hit the mainline after being rebuilt by Steamrail (well, overhauled really) after a number of years of service with West Coast Railway on Warnambool services (ran weekly on Saturdays until 2004 when WCR closed up).

Zec