| Posted by thewiz on October 23, 2012 | |
An inadvertent comment on the state of passenger trains in the Dominion of Canada.
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Does anyone else here from North America feel a bit embarrassed by the condition of this loco? Was there no funding available to spruce it up before sending it back for a photo shoot?
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We believe the last time this locomotive had a repaint was 1952, I started train spotting in the early 50s and saw this loco quite a few times working on the East Coast Main Line, I also went to Shildon last week to see her again after over 40 years. This means that every time I've seen this locomotive she has had the same paint job, quite a record and in some ways a shame that it's going to be repainted even though she badly needs one.
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Correction : She was before at Exporail, Saint-Constant, Quebec, Canada. http://www.exporail.org/en/welcome-to-exporail/ one of the biggest train museun in canada.
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Disgraceful! They do not deserve to have this locomotive returned. It should stay in England.
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This engine will be on loan to the world's most prestigious railway museum,
the National Railway Museum (www.nrm.org.uk) in York, England. Built in 1937 for the
London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), the “Dominion of Canada” along with the "Dwight D. Eisenhower" will be part of a program of celebratory events in 2013 commemorating the 75th anniversary of the world speed record by a steam locomotive. “Dominion of Canada” will be restored and repainted LNER blue and white, at the shop at Shildon, England for the 2013 celebrations before being returned to Exporail in 2014.
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| Posted by rhovak on January 4, 2013 | |
Thanks for posting this picture. The 60010 is one of my favorite locomotives. In Canada, she was on display in an unheated shed of a museum that only in recent years built a new heated building and is now known as Exporail. She may not have been kept shiny but she felt original and authentic. You could climb into the cab and feel like you were in a true slumbering locomotive. There were even still chuncks of coal in the tender. As a child, my father would take the family to the museum where she was kept and I fell in love with the passageway through the tender as my brother and I would run through it. A lasting impression was made and definitely fueled the passion for trains that grew in me, as I'm sure it did for many other budding railfans in Canada... more than if she was kept in a jewelry box and untouchable. However under close photographic inspection; she is due for a new coat, eh?
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