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2 hours ago, Mikkel said:

I'm sure this would cause faction wars between tea and coffee drinkers. Personally I'd love the smell of coffee passing through the countryside 

 

On a more serious note, one of the problems of certain biofuels is that they require land in the tropics, where land is in short supply, especially for the poorest. Waste plastic as a fuel would be nice.

I’ve been worrying about seeing if I could change the fuels for heritage railways for a while now. I don’t particularly want to see the end of steam so early in my lifetime if I’m honest.

There’s hope for the post 50s locos since they seemed less fussy about coal. It seems the GWR locos are going to go first since most only seem to like Welsh coal.

The recycled coffee seemed like a good idea for A1 Tornado when I first thought about it. Since the coffee isn’t millions of years old it might clog up a bit more but it should keep steam around for a decade more hopefully.

Diesels are still relatively newer than the steam locos too, and the original Diesel engine was never planned to run on fossil fuels (until Mr Rudolf Diesel died at sea very suspiciously)

There’s hope for diesel too. 

I don’t think I’ll ever get the chance to test these alternate fuels but I’ll still try.

plus if locos burn coffee, the name ‘Coffee Pot’ will actually make sense (mostly for the Q1).

3 hours ago, AlfaZagato said:

4014 was real cool when she rolled through town.

I’ve seen videos of it. Such a brilliant locomotive!

in one of the videos, 4014 was pulling freight and I thought an 8F on a gravel train was big!

1 hour ago, AlfaZagato said:

OK, different from the ALCO I expected.   I think mostly by virtue of being Baldwin.

It’s one of the American loco classes I’ve always wanted to go and see. 
Along with, of course, good old 4014.

21 hours ago, AlfaZagato said:

Without a picture, I'd wager the 0-6-0 tender switcher is the USRA Standard 0-6-0.

It’s one of these:

a Baldwin 0-6-0

Wow, this tank looks awesome!

ive got one too but it’s just green.

Looking great

The colour scheme works very well on that battlesuit!

I still think that even though the Imperium expects Chaos or Tyranids to take over the galaxy, it’s the Tau who will. 
one planet at a time.

Admittedly, that loco is the only reason I’d ever want to go to America...and also to see the A4 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower... but mostly 4014.

Those photos are great. They help with prototyping.

Poor diesel. Needs some friends and a repaint. 
 

Great find!

4 hours ago, John Tomlinson said:

I think the Nene Valley one may have gone to Holland now, but the Bressingham one should still be there.

 

I dug out a couple of pics of the TCDD 8F at the GC, dated 9th April 2011, and these should be included below. The other 8F in the lower shot is 48305, which I think still lives there.

i might have to go find that now

ah yes I remember seeing this one on TV. I prefer the red and black colour scheme the TCDD did with them, like the two surviving examples still in Turkey.

yeah 48305 is still there. So is 45305, which I still find funny.

2 hours ago, John Tomlinson said:

Your story is not quite as fictional as one might think.

 

For a number of years there was a Kriegslok at the Nene Valley, and also I believe another at Bressingham. Although not used by BR, they nonetheless have crossed the Channel.

 

The Gloucester and Warwickshire had/ have an 8F repatriated from Turkey which for a while was in TCDD livery, I remember it came to the GC in that condition for a visit.

 

John.

An actual Kreigslok in Britain? Wow that must have looked Awesome.

i know of the TCDD 8Fs that came back home. One living near me is at Ruddington in LMS livery (and a rather out of place looking speedometer, might I add)

That engine looks so scary

I’ve  been trying to make a BR 52 in 7mm for my railway gun

2 hours ago, CLARENCE said:

And how about this; on a TV programme I recorded a few days ago - Tornado did 100mph!!

Brilliant! Just what we want to see these days.

I once joked that Tornado’s last 100mph run failure was because the Mallard sabotaged the run to keep it’s 124 mph record intact

9 hours ago, cctransuk said:

Please - not 'steamies' !!

 

How twee !!

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

Fair enough,

how’s ‘kettles’ instead?  

I’ve been to see the Famous Trains layouts and they are superb. Definitely worth the visit.

This photography is truly inspiring! They looks so real. 

58 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

Castle Rock is beginning to sound like a railway enthusiast's dream! But I suppose that's exactly what it is  

 

Will you be modelling shop C? If so, you may be interested in Mike's superb shadow box here: 

 

I will certainly be trying to model it at some point in the future as an operational layout.

thanks for the link. That’s some inspirational stuff right there.

Looks great! 

Modelling and photography put together can create some awesome photos

Recycling at its best!

The photo attached is of a plant growing within one of the Great Central’s 16ton Windcutter wagon. I don’t know how the plant is sustained in there but it is and it gets free travel! 

That event looks massive! I hope to attend it next year.