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There's no way this ran on the DRG&W.
- Thread starter TweetsieDude
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I think this really only applies to preservation locos though I could be wrong. Most of the fellas I've spoken to give off about how dirty and smelly the railways were (locos included) during the steam era and say that people have just forgotten that through the years with all the nostalgia involved.
Sorry, I veer OT.
After nationalisation as far as loco's were concerned I think it depended on where they were shedded, who was maintaining them and what they were used for, I can remember seeing some pristine Halls, Castles, Pannier Tanks, etc in BR days, however there were a lot of dirty ones and dirty was really dirty! and as for some of the coaches...............
jadebullet
might be back?
Sorry you're wrong. The Canadian Pacific Railway had semi-streamlined engines for freight. What's more the Americans got the idea of streamlining trains with the Zephyr in the mid-1930s.
Make that the Reading Crusader a bit before that. First Streamliner in the country.
simulatortrain
jointed freaking rails
Sorry you're wrong. The Canadian Pacific Railway had semi-streamlined engines for freight. What's more the Americans got the idea of streamlining trains with the Zephyr in the mid-1930s.
Canada isn't the US, and the Zephyr is passenger.
I think this really only applies to preservation locos though I could be wrong. Most of the fellas I've spoken to give off about how dirty and smelly the railways were (locos included) during the steam era and say that people have just forgotten that through the years with all the nostalgia involved.
Sorry, I veer OT.
Yea, I see your point, however, I would say that that would be what make steam engines awesome! All that helps make them seem as if they were alive. Older railroaders I've talked to say it's easy to pull a lever or push a button and make a train go now, it's another thing to get a steam engine going!
I have read, but kept out of the slanging match. It was nice to see the voice of reason from bdaneal. Atlantis27, the reason for our restricted loading gauge is that we were first and have suffered ever since. Because of our many restricted tunnels and overbridges it is not financially feasible to do a mass reconstruction. This has meant that we cannot accept normal European trains nor have double deck coaches (except for dwarfs!). Bulleid tried to make a sort of double deck coach but ventilation and loading/unloading problems made it a failure so they lengthened the platforms instead.
In fact the loading gauge of the main line out of Southampton is being increased by work on Southampton tunnel and lifting overbridges so that larger container trains can go direct rather than the roundabout way.
In fact the loading gauge of the main line out of Southampton is being increased by work on Southampton tunnel and lifting overbridges so that larger container trains can go direct rather than the roundabout way.