04-02-2015, 08:40 PM
AF350 Wrote:BR60103,Flying Scotsman's final number under British Railways was 60103.
British outline locos kinda grow on you after awhile but the two I like best is one called a mallard? and the Flying Scotsman. I like the looks of the 3 rail stuff from ACE and even ETS equipment(Chek. republic manufacturer).
Mallard set the record for fastest steam locomotive just over 75 years ago. The record has never been broken and probably never will be. It has been joked that a mallard is a slow duck.
Mallard was one of the A4 class of streamlined pacifics. Flying Scotsman was the direct antecedent, being at times A1, A3 and A10. (It was bumped when one of Gresley's successors wanted the A1 designation for his own design.)
There are 2 A4 pacifics in North America -- Dominion of Canada in Montreal and Dwight D. Eisenhauer in Wisconsin (IIRC).
Not sure where to get N/S sheet. I have a small coil of strip. You could leave a length of flex-track on your local railroad.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.