Without the edit button, cannot efficiently post the photos themselves, but you can contact Mike if you want them, and he may be glad to hear from you. The icons may suffice, anyway.
Dear all,
Our colleague in Melb >>Mike< has sent us a nice review of some locomotives. The photos are great!
FYI
Steve
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From: Mike <vr27553@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:14 AM
Subject: Angas Bulleid Vallantin etc
To:
G’day all,
I remember being impressed at how fast the NZR ran on narrow gauge. After Angas and Gard designed the K class 4-8-4, following up with the improved Ka, they had a go at a light 4-8-2. This became the J class, which in the fashion of the day was also streamlined. But unlike the streamlined R class in Tasmania, which probably seldom outran its own smoke, the J was a genuine fast runner. Some of them even dodged German submarines, the last being
So on the basis of this Thread’s title: I hope you will permit me to add this candidate. LNER’s 4472 The Flying Sctsman, which ran an amazing 15,000 mile tour in the United States from 1969 to 1973. From East to West and South to North. [bow]
YouTube Video from the 1969/70 North American Tour :
[ Just to note: Apparently, the ‘cowcatcher’ was applied to 4472 before she left England. The Pyle headlamp, Bell and whistle were loaned from the Southern Rwy. on whose Steam Program 4472 participated in with Alan Pegler.]
Although the originsl posting was made in my limited time on wide-band internet, I am now looking at the thread on the Yeshiva’s limited internet, and the icons don’t show up. I hope they show up for other readers, and perhaps I will have the opporunity tomorrow at HU Library or Litel wideband and learn!
The best I can do is the larger wheeled 241C, and even the French Wikipedia has managed to reverse the captions on the diagrams of the 241C as built in 1925 and as rebuilt in 1932. But the diagram with the cigar shaped nose is really as built,and the 241A looked like this but had the outside cylinders connected to the leading coupled axle.
I do have to comment on the final entry, even not having seen the photo.
As a child in primary school, I saw many of the airliners approaching Sydney from the north. In 1959 I was anxious to see a Boeing 707 which represented the most modern aircraft in service. Of course I could only see aircraft that appeared outside class times and during the school day, but I remember seeing a 707 for the first time as a distant outline.
The QANTAS 707-138 had a short fuselage, (ten feet shorter) like the option of the 747SP which they purchased for the same reason, the need for trans-Pacific range. These had turbojets with silencers to reduce the noise. Later the turbofan version became available and the red and white tails appeared (and crossing the Pacific became easier with the better fuel economy). But the originals had a dark red stripe and a white tail with two red horizontal stripes.
In 2007 on a dull day, I was walking at lunchtime on a hill overlooking Canberra Airport, and to my complete amazement, a QANTAS 707-138B painted in the original scheme made a number of "touch and go"s while I stood there pretty much stunned. This was the first 707-138 and they were training crew for its flight to Longreach and the QANTAS Museum.
This is the aircraft, photographed within days of my last sight of it.