Looks like they are still going strong. From many years ago in Galveston, Texas when the Texas Limited bought two of their retired F7s.
Not many railroad crosssings where there are bigger warnings about the water than the railway. Kirkby in Furness Lidgate user worked crossing (UWC). The Duddon estuary is just over the tracks and can be treacherous. We have an Inshore rescue station in the village with a Rib boat and a Quad bike kitted out to get people out of trouble Part of my extensive collection of British Loco and freight-stock cast Builders and registration plates.I dont have much wall space in the upstairs office so I tend to rotate them round a bit for variety If anybody is interested I'll post pics of the vehicles they came off Kev
I love that plate and plaque wall! Of course I'm interested! One of the warnings is about... quicksand! So quicksand is not just in B-movies and cheesy TV adventure shows from the 1960s and 1970s...
So this group were rescued from KXA wagon BNFL 95600 A Behemoth of a wagon that was part of a fleet of six designed to work between Barrow Docks and Sellafield carrying either one large nuclear flask or two of the Cuboid flasks that work to the Magnox power stations The yellow plaque is the British rail registration that identifies it as a Private Owner wagon, The build plate shows it was constructed by BREL at Ashford works in 1977. The small oval plate is the last general repair plate dated August 1994.Most of the other lettering on the wagon was painted on Tare weight was 58 tonnes, fully laden weight 157.9 tonnes, Four Y25 bogies (Trucks) with four brake blocks per wheel meaning there were 64 brakes blocks in total. Main body full clad in stainless steel originally they were cleared to work to Europe on train ferries but these were later downgraded to work the U.K only I've got all the drawing to scratchbuild some of these. I'm waiting until I have enough jobs for the Pantograph engraver and then I'll cut the main body components out of Nickel Silver and just polish it up once assembled From another era Most British Rail steam locos had a Shedplate on the smokebox door. This identified which shed the loco was allocated to and was fairly easy to swap if a loco got re-allocated. 41C was Millhouses . This was an eight road shed just to the south of Sheffield City centre on the Midland Railway Main line. Dads camera seemed to letting some stray light in! It closed in 1962 but the building survived for many years in industrial use It was noted back in the day for its fleet of inside cylinder 4-4-0s . 40538 was built by the Midland railway in September 1899 and it survived until May 1959. Another of Dads photos Another rarity. An LNER D49 Hunt class 4-4-0 . 62754 'The Berkely' It was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley ( Mallard, Flying Scotsman etc) and built in 1934 before finally being withdrawn in 1958. She was a D49/2 fitted with Lenz Rotary cam poppet valves More soon Kev
Inside cylinders! Interesting stuff -- never heard of that before, but I can see what you mean in the photo. Your father took some great pictures.
