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St Albans Steam & Country show, so many classic vehicles there, was a great day out, hope to go again.
Taken from a hidey hole (that beforehand I didn't know about) at Quorn and Woodhouse station. Class 'A1' Pacific no. 60163 'Tornado' whistles as she approaches with a train for Leicester North.
This view neatly shows some of the signalling that makes the Great Central Railway special. On the left is the Quorn Down starter and beyond that the Down section signal (both at danger). In the distance the Loughborough auto-distant signal looks like it's showing two yellows. 'Tornado' has just passed Quorn's Up home signal, the post of which also carries the distant arm for the Quorn Up starter. In the 'six foot' between the Up and Down lines are three ground signals (or 'dollies') that control reverse movements from the Down line into, from L to R, the Down platform, the Up platform and Quorn yard.
In front of the Down starting signal, the low grey box with the striped cover contains a 'signal post telephone' that goes direct to Quorn signal box. The line in rear of the signal is not track-circuited (shown by no 'diamond' or 'lozenge' on the signal post) which means that in theory the signalman could forget about a train standing there. Hence the need to remind the 'bobby' by phone immediately if one's train is detained there by the signal at red.
Stoomlocomotief 3737 van de Nederlandse Spoorwegen is onderweg van Apeldoorn naar Dieren met een excursietrein.
Dutch Railways steamengine 3737 is on its way from Apeldoorn to Dieren with a excursiontrain.
The famous Adler Steam engine from BlueBrixx is a real great set. Motorized with 9V, running smoothly. But the weight is high, so the axles have been replaced by original Lego ones.
This is Acton Yard, in west London, and, early in the morning, no. 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' is trundling along the Up Relief line with the empty stock for a rail tour before swinging left to join the Up Poplar* and then the North London Line. The train is on a circuitous journey from Southall to Victoria via some sidings at Willesden.
I thought this was one of my pics... until I saw that it had been taken with a Canon. I'm guessing it was sent to me by one of the other support crew. If he recognises his pic I'll gladly credit it to him!
Come to think of it... I might have been on the loco at the time.
*Back in the 19th century and even a bit into the latter half of the 20th, if you'd carried on round the North London Railway's line you'd have ended up at Poplar, in the East End of London. Nowadays Poplar station is on the Docklands Light Railway but isn't the NLR's Poplar, which is now called All Saints and is also on the DLR. However, line names that were created in the 1850s/60s linger on today for the national network, over 150 years on, which I think is rather nice.
London 2014
In earlier times the steam engine was used for opening and closing of the bridges of Tower Bridge.
S7067
With a cold rain falling and the transfer table positioned on the shop track, Engineer Ray Dest takes Mt. Washington Railway Co. #9 "Waumbek" back to its parking spot alongside the old shop building and just in front of stablemate Locomotive #2. Both locomotives will have their fires banked and will remain hot overnight. A special event earlier on this spring day saw the first operations for both engines and both are sporting probably the shiniest smokebox paint you'll ever see on cog locomotives, because they have just emerged from winter maintenance.
Or maybe just 'Tangoed'.
The glow is from the fire which, since we had been dragged back from Leicester by a 'Peak' diesel, is just burning gently to provide steam heating. Previously, from Loughborough to Leicester with ten vehicles (nine bogies plus a four-wheel van plus 138 tones of diesel - total over 450 tons), the fire had been white hot - actually pale yellow in colour.
Our superb loco, BR Standard class 5 no. 73156, was of course quite up to the job, and so was Matt who managed the boiler to perfection, and is seen here pleased with his work well done. The other guy is Carl, a member of the loco's owning group who was riding with us.
Quorn & Woodhouse, Great Central Railway.
The Valley Railroad's 80-ton, GE Center Cab Locomotive #0900 brings an afternoon Essex Clipper Dinner Train across the little bridge over Chester Creek (MP 8.9) on its southbound run back to Essex. Unlike the normal riverboat trips on this line, the Essex Clipper Dinner Trains are virtually always diesel-powered. When this image was captured back in October of 2009, the railroad had a pair of these center-cab units, which would alternate on the dinner trains. Since that time, the railroad has purchased a number of other, nearly identical locomotives, and as of 2025 has at least 5 of them on the property.
60019 "Bittern" steams across the Nottinghamshire flatlands near Claypole with "The Talisman" - 1Z50 08:18 London Kings Cross to Newcastle. 1/3/2008. The A4 came on to the train at Peterborough. I wonder whether we'll ever see Bittern on the main line again - especially in green. With hindsight, I think we were very lucky to have two green "Streaks" in action at this time, especially as fifteen years later, we don't have any.
Union Pacific's 4014 steam engine returned to Ogden for the 150th Anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike. 4014's last visit to Ogden was five years prior when it was being returned from a California Museum for refurbishment in Cheyenne. It was sandwiched between two UP diesels and was not under power. The photo show 4014 traveling through Uintas UT about three miles from Ogden on May 14, 2019.
The Hornsby Chain-Track Tractor is the ancestor of all "caterpillars". After some petroleum-powered prototypes, in 1909 a steam-powered unit was sold for work in the Yukon Territories, where oil was scare but coal and water abundant. The steam engine (Boiler and machine aggregate) was delivered by William Foster, of Lincoln. The track system and steering was created by David Roberts at Hornsby Co.
The Roberts patent rights were sold to the Holt Co in early 1914, which was in 1925 absorbed into the Caterpillar Co.
Today, only the chain tracks of the Hornsby Steam Crawler have survived.
There is a breathtaking live steam model of this tractor at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hvzBofFfzA which helped me a lot in figuring out the right proportions.
No.221A is a 2-8-2 freight locomotive supplied to the Queensland Government Railways during World War 2 as one of 20 'AC16 class' locomotives. It was built in 1943 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, USA (builder's number 69456) to a standard US wartime design and made available under 'lend-lease' finance. These wartime locomotive were known as 'MacArthurs' and identical engines were supplied to metre and 1067mm-gauge lines in India, Greece, Malaya and Thailand as part of the war effort, where some remained at work until the late 1980's.
steamlocomotive.com says:
"The Southern Pacific Railroad only had one Camelback locomotive. It was number 2282 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1900 for is Sonora subsidiary in Mexico. This 4-6-0 was built specifically to burn inferior Arizona coal."
Photo from Ken Shattock.
A quick grab with my phone during a brief visit to the shed. '8F' no. 48305 under Empress Road bridge before taking up its evening diner duty.
Great Central Railway.
LMS Black 5 44806 on the rear of the train passing Abbott's House approaching Goathland Station, NYMR.
LNER Class A1 Peppercorn 60163 Tornado
Tornado, 14 December 2008
Power type
Steam
Designer
Arthur Peppercorn (original designer)
Builder
A1 Steam Locomotive Trust
Build date
1994–2008
Configuration
4-6-2
Leading wheel
diameter
3 ft 2 in (0.97 m)
Driver diameter
6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Trailing wheel
diameter
3 ft 8 in (1.12 m)
Length
72 ft 11.75 in (22.24 m)
Width
9 ft 2.875 in (2.82 m)
Height
13 ft (3.96 m)
Axle load
22.1 long tons (22.5 t)
Weight on drivers
66.55 long tons (67.62 t)
Locomotive weight
105.2 long tons (106.9 t)[1]
Tender weight
60.9 long tons (61.9 t)
Locomotive & tender
combined weight
166.1 long tons (168.8 t)
Fuel type
Coal
Fuel capacity
7.5 long tons (7.6 t))
Water capacity
6,000 imp gal (27,000 L))
Boiler
Diagram 118
6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) diameter
29 ft 2 in (8.89 m) length
Boiler pressure
250 psi (1,700 kPa)
Firegrate area
50.0 sq ft (4.65 m2)
Heating surface:
Tubes
1,211.6 sq ft (112.56 m2)
Heating surface:
Flues
1,004.5 sq ft (93.32 m2)
Heating surface:
Firebox
245.3 sq ft (22.79 m2)
Heating surface:
Total
2,461.4 sq ft (228.67 m2)
Superheater area
697.7 sq ft (64.82 m2)
Cylinder size
19 in × 26 in (480 mm × 660 mm)
Top speed
100 mph (160 km/h) design[2]
75 mph (121 km/h) certified
Tractive effort
2,700 metric horsepower (2,000 kW)
Number
60163 (display)
98863 (TOPS)
Official name
Tornado
Axle load class
Route availability 9
First run
29 July 2008
Disposition
Operational. Approved for 75 mph (121 km/h) running on the Network Rail main line.
60163 Tornado is a main-line steam locomotive built in Darlington, England. Completed in 2008, Tornado was the first such locomotive built in the United Kingdom since Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, in 1960. Designed to meet modern safety and certification standards, Tornado runs on the UK rail network and on mainline-connected heritage railways. The locomotive is named after the Panavia Tornado military jet.
on the reverse:
Grand Trunk 559
Niagra Falls, Ontario 7/16/20
Raymond from Oldtimetrain website added this information:
"My research indicates it is S-1-f class 2-8-2 559 built MLW 53929 1913. Re#3464. Retired 1961."
Gauge 1 Lego model of 1813 locomotive. The loco has been redesigned several times during its long work life from 1813 to 1862. The model shows the last form, which is on display in the London Science Museum, and of which there is a detailed, working replica from 1906 in the Deutsches Museum, Munich.
JS 8173 backs down to the loading point with empties. Maybe one of the injector water valves has been left open or the fireman is about to put the injector on. Note the icicles on the tender. And the 'disordered' pipework on the loco's boiler. :-)
Sandaoling open-cast coal mine, Xinjiang province, China.
In the 'right' BR livery, class A1 no. 60163 'Tornado' powers past Waitby on the climb up to Ais Gill. Having left Carlisle late and then dropped a few more minutes, the loco was by now clawing back time, and was going significantly more quickly than 'British India Line' which had preceded it - maybe a by-now-dry rail helped. It was very noticeable how different the two three-cylinder machines sound.
Settle and Carlisle railway.
Running light with a fresh load of coal from the bunker, the crew of Mt. Washington Railway Co. #4 "Chocorua" takes their locomotive to the platform area, where they will be reunited with their coach.
This image was captured during a July, 2006 visit to Marshfield Station, when all passenger operations were still being conducted with steam locomotives. The locomotive pictured here was built in 1883 by the Manchester Locomotive Works for the Green Mountain Cog Railway on what is now Cadillac Mountain in Maine. When that line went out of business, it was purchase by the Mt. Washington Railway Co. and became #4 with the name "Summit." She carried that name until 1999, when she was renamed "Chocorua." In 2007, this engine underwent an interesting transformation, in which she received the cab and tender from the recently-retired #8 "Moosilauke." That lash-up retained the steam dome #4, but also retained the name "Moosilauke" and the #8 on the tender. Crews at the railway jokingly referred to this odd combination as the "48."
Retired permanently in early 2009 she went on static display with a coach at the Gazebo in nearby Twin Mountain, NH, carrying her original name "Summit."