| Posted by FSWood on February 28, 2016 | |
I like this size of train; not sure I can say why without just making something up on the fly.
Interesting styling point how cab door opening goes through roof curve.
Two tone green paint is attractive, I've always liked UK's lined style, with the red buffer beam.
Other interesting detail points are sand box behind rear driver, and inclined cylinders.
Seen there on rear buffer is end of what I've read to be a leaf spring set connecting the buffers.
And I'd swear that's green moss on corner of buffer beam of first car, interesting where that stuff grows. It's as persistent as the kudzu vines where I grew up.
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Dave do you know the date when his line starting operating?
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A lovely photo of a colorful locomotive....nothing to give the date away!
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Line was built in 1725 as a wooden waggonway (see my third most looked at picture for an example) . It was constructed to join up with already existing waggonways which were close to the river as Tanfield coal mines were some distance away. Iron rails were laid down about 100 years later in the 1820's and steam locomotives came a few years after that. We have the world's first railway bridge and also the world's oldest working railway shed and have a claim to be the world's oldest railway though Middleton railway in Leeds dispute this.
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You lads across the pond have a lot of history, much more than us Americans, thank you for the information.
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Here is link to a waggonway http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=445195
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