Hello,
that's interesting that you lived for some time in Koblenz. My hometown is Höhr-Grenzhausen. Do you know it?
Then you might have heard about the Brexbachtalbahn when you were in Germany. It will be used again as a tourist railway! Hopefully trains will start running this year.
Another question in respect to language. How would you translate Spurweite. I saw once in a small sheet with translations of railway related words that the translated it as track width. Isn't the word gauge a better translation?
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Hello S N G
I live near Rainhill on Merseyside.
A couple of years ago i built a 3.5" gauge, 1.0625" to the ft live steam model of a Hunslet ng 0-4-0 (dinorwic type),that is how i came to choose my user name,quite simple really
Cheers.............Hunslet
ps apologies to Richard ,a bit off topic.
I live near Rainhill on Merseyside.
A couple of years ago i built a 3.5" gauge, 1.0625" to the ft live steam model of a Hunslet ng 0-4-0 (dinorwic type),that is how i came to choose my user name,quite simple really
Cheers.............Hunslet
ps apologies to Richard ,a bit off topic.
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Spurweite = "gauge" in English.
I never went to the Westerwald in steam days - but I remember that you could see a Bw (engine shed) with some 82's on the top of a hill (Siershahn?), as you drove south from Köln on the Autobahn. I was always in a hurry to get to Hof for the 01's, and when I did go to that Bw it was too late, steam had finished.
Pech!
Gruß
Dick
Spurweite = "gauge" in English.
I never went to the Westerwald in steam days - but I remember that you could see a Bw (engine shed) with some 82's on the top of a hill (Siershahn?), as you drove south from Köln on the Autobahn. I was always in a hurry to get to Hof for the 01's, and when I did go to that Bw it was too late, steam had finished.
Pech!
Gruß
Dick
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This is the backhead of a Big Boy loco
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Its at this museum Richard.
Dwight D Eisenhower is also there but they have painted the motion white.
Have a look at the slideshow.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... n%26sa%3DN
Dwight D Eisenhower is also there but they have painted the motion white.
Have a look at the slideshow.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... n%26sa%3DN
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Ah Green Bay - I'll get there one day!
There's a picture on the A4 page of Eisenhower's unusual motion.
The museum here in Dallas does have some interest stock - a Big Boy, a Mikado with rear truck booster (ie. like those Gresley tried on the P1s), a GG1, DD40, etc. Unfortunately everything is out in the open.
I think a few Pershings must survive - the Texas State Railroad has one in running condition.
Richard
There's a picture on the A4 page of Eisenhower's unusual motion.
The museum here in Dallas does have some interest stock - a Big Boy, a Mikado with rear truck booster (ie. like those Gresley tried on the P1s), a GG1, DD40, etc. Unfortunately everything is out in the open.
I think a few Pershings must survive - the Texas State Railroad has one in running condition.
Richard
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