BR 60008 in Green Bay Railway Museum

[LNER Fan 60008]

it being stuck with no track isnt a problem thats what we term a quick remodel of the end of the building and bobs your uncle.

The museum probably won't accept funds to remove one end of the building, as they prefer the engine as it is, much like a certain ThinkTank with their own BR engine. Even if you do get the museum end remodeled, where will the engine run, once returned, restored, and sent back? There's only one circle or track around the museum, none of which is suit for this engine.

[rob237]

Why do the arrogant Brits feel it is in order to rudely impose their scenario upon the owners?
Tempting for American railfans to retort, "Rearrange these two words into a well known phrase or saying..."
Cheers
Robt P.

[coachmann]

Why do the arrogant Brits......

Oh dear....

[rob237]

... Oh dear....

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Cheers
Robt P.

[swhite01]

Not to highjack the thread but I visited Green Bay in Aug 2008. I posted a number of pics to my Fotopic site and it includes pics of the coaches. The link.. http://gallery17789.fotopic.net/c1556968_1.html as others have mentioned, the valve gear does look pretty bad being painted with an Aluminium/Silver paint.

I am visiting Montreal later in the year with a visit to the other exiled A4!

Hope of interest,

Steve W

[LNER Fan 60008]

Great photos. Did you camera have a zoom out function, by chance?

I am not sure when the motion was painted over. Does anyone here know?

[third-rail]

coaches would look a lot better without that hidious green and some proper numbers/lettering or even painted blood and custard with br numbering i think they always paint the motion over there

[Wavey]

I assume that the carriages have been painted in their interpretaion of the wartime olive green that they carried when they were converted for use in Eisenhowers train. Of course this would have been a matt finish, the roofs would not have been white(!), and the carriages had metal plating fitted to the body sides. In their current guise carmine and cream would look much more appropriate.
The museum did contact me (as Secretary of the LNERCA) many years ago enquiring about the various finishes that the carriages would have carried over the years but they did not seem to want to turn them out in original varnished teak! I might inadvertantly be to blame for the current green livery!

[hyperion]

the motion on the a4 looks atrocious has it been painted?

I agree, it looks awful, send No. 8 back here and we'll restore it properly for you. It was the first A4 I ever saw in LNER Blue.

Flamingo - Yes 60008 was my first sight of an A4 at all, probably one of the first sights to hook me. I remember it well, I must have been about 8 in 1948, going down to the shops with me mam in Potters Bar and I saw this wonderful blue locomotive with red wheels, all on its own, across the field which divided Mutton Lane from the railway - it's an estate now of course. As we walked down into the shops this vision, cocks blasting I recall, progressed slowly over the old bridge and into the bottle neck to Barnet. She must have been ex-works and held on the up slow to be let out just in time to bless my young eyes. Me mam read the name out to me - I got me first ABC that year I think.

Not wanting to put a damper on the proceedings but in later life, during my 4 all too short years at Kings Cross Diesel, my regular mate who'd fired in the top link, told me that 8 was always the least thought of of the Cross's 'Blue'ens', they never knew why but she never quite had the sparkle of the the others.

There, I haven't looked round here for ages, come looking for something completely different and immediately hooked - - - - hey , ho - happy days

[hyperion]

Oh yes and shame about the paint in the wrong place but he/she's still a bonny sight isn't she/he ? Let her rest there as a reminder to the cousins of what we were !

[owd sweedy]

......I am visiting Montreal later in the year with a visit to the other exiled A4!
Steve W....

Hi Steve, If you let me know when you plan to visit, I will tell you if 60010
will still be on display, or (hopefully) in the paint shops by then, could save you a wasted trip.
Though the rest of Exporail is fascinating and there is also the terrier Waddon.
Owd Sweedy

[swhite01]

Sorry for the late response to LNER Fan 60008 but the pictures were taken with a Canon Compact SD1100 (US version of the IXUS series)... a great little camera for both still pics and video. I have taken a number of Videos of Bittern at my local station, Welwyn North, and placed them on Youtube. Had some nice comments!

Steve

[chaz harrison]

I don't get it......
We have four A4s in the UK. Why would we want to repatriate the other two?
Leave them across the pond and put your enthusiasm/effort/money into the four we have.

Or better still work towards getting Green Arrow running again.

Chaz

[52D]

Well said Chas.

[Eightpot]

Not wanting to put a damper on the proceedings but in later life, during my 4 all too short years at Kings Cross Diesel, my regular mate who'd fired in the top link, told me that 8 was always the least thought of of the Cross's 'Blue'ens', they never knew why but she never quite had the sparkle of the the others.

Probably explains the run I had behind it with the morning 'Talisman' going to Edinburgh around August 1959. It expired on the viaduct at Durham, train rescued and carried on (after a delay) to Newcastle behind a V1 or V3 where an A3 took over. Well over an hour late into Edinburgh.