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Post by beana51 on Apr 3, 2017 14:01:24 GMT -5
THIS STEAM ENGINE SUBJECT OF A PROGRAM..MOVEING IT BACK TO ENGLAND FROM USA ....Struck by its Name and its beauty...wonder if That is in the sim world ...60008 Dwight D Eisenhower is an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive. Built for the London & North Eastern Railway in 1937, this locomotive was originally numbered 4496 and named Golden Shuttle. It was renamed Dwight D. Eisenhower after World War II and renumbered 8 on 23 November 1946 under Edward Thompson's LNER 1946 renumbering scheme. After nationalisation in 1948 British Railways renumbered it 60008 on 29 October 1948. It was retired from service in 1963, and was moved to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, where it is currently on display. It returned to England in 2012 for display at the National Railway Museum in York when all surviving A4s were reunited. It returned to Green Bay in 2014. ...............Configuration 4-6-2 UIC class 2′C1 h3 Gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Leading dia. 3 ft 2 in (0.965 m) Driver dia. 6 ft 8 in (2.032 m) Trailing dia. 3 ft 8 in (1.118 m) Boiler pressure 250 psi (1.72 MPa) Cylinders Three Cylinder size 18.5 in × 26 in (470 mm × 660 mm) Loco brake Steam Train brakes Vacuum [hide]Performance figures Tractive effort 35,455 lbf (157.7 kN) [hide]Career Operators LNER → BR Class A4 Number in class 19 of 35 Numbers LNER 4496, LNER 8 (from 1946), BR: 60008 (from 1948) Official name Golden Shuttle, Dwight D Eisenhower Withdrawn 20 July 1963 Current owner National Railroad Museum Disposition Static display at the National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin   |
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Post by bhk on Apr 4, 2017 4:06:57 GMT -5
One of the brilliant Nigel Gresley designs...probably the most recognisable Pacific style in the world.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2017 4:45:14 GMT -5
I was privileged as a boy to experience the era when beauties like this were still being used. We used to go down to the local railway station, where there was a little yard from which goods were delivered to local customers using a small articulated truck pulled by a 3-wheeled Scammel tractor unit, and stand on the passenger bridge over the line as the steam engines passed beneath us with the driver giving us a hearty blast on the train's whistle. After an afternoon's train spotting we went home reaking of steam and smoke to be told off by our mums and made to take our clothes off to be washed, and jump in the bath before we smelt the house out! All changed now, of course. The goods yards and Scammels long gone and disappeared in the mists of time. From the age of 11 in 1957 until I began to ride the 8 miles by bike when I was about 14 or so I used to travel to school by electric passenger train from that station and the excitement was always when on the return journey the Southern Railway train being run was the already by then elderly double-decker.
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Post by Tom Constantine on Apr 4, 2017 13:33:12 GMT -5
Looks pretty good in Train Simulator too, Attachments:
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Post by beana51 on Apr 4, 2017 15:24:41 GMT -5
WOW TOM...LOOKS BETTER ...As Of Now I do not Rail Road..The BIGGIE QUESTION...How can i create This ?? and high lighting this historic Engine in UK,The System and that engine...Minimal,Not to Costly installation, ?? ... ....Thnx Tom
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Post by bhk on Apr 4, 2017 16:45:55 GMT -5
I was privileged as a boy to experience the era when beauties like this were still being used....... We baby-boomers lived in wonderful times, really. Sure...there was crap that went with the good but when looking back, and hopefully without rose-coloured glasses, we can consider ourselves fortunate to have experienced stuff like that, Roger. Your reminiscence brings back similar memories of growing up a mere 200 metres (or yards, as it was back then) from the main North Coast line and having to wait at the level-crossing gates - when walking home from school - for the afternoon freight train to pass through. Putting pennies and half-pennies on the rail-head and being chased off the track by Miss Davis, the gate-keeper!  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_D59_class_locomotive |
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Post by beana51 on Apr 4, 2017 22:47:40 GMT -5
NO BABY BOOMER I STEAM LOCOS WAS REALITY GROWING UP..THE SMOKE THE SOOT THE WAILING ON THE LONG WINTER NIGHTS IN THE DISTANT WATER TANKS WOOD AND COAL FIRES IN THEIR BELLY'S THE SOUNDS OF ALL THAT STEEL CLANKING BANGING GROANING ...STEAM A LIVING THING...TODAY?? WHEN THE KETTLE STEAMS OF FOR TEA?? I THINK OF THOSE LIVING BREATHING LOCOMOTIVES ..RACING ACROSS AMERICA..IN HIGH ROCKY S,THE SOUTH WEST ALONG ALL MAJOR RIVERS COMING INTO NYC TO GRAN CENTRAL STATION..IT WAS DURING WW 2 TO THE PORTS ALL OVER AMERICA..CARGO BE IT PLANES TRUCKS TANKS, FOOD TO RACE ACROSS TO ENGLAND ALONG WITH TROOP SHIPS...WAS THE RAILS FROM THE FACTORY'S TO THE DOCKS TO THE WAR...OUR SECRET WEAPON! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeuLArBAiFI |
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Post by Tom Constantine on Apr 4, 2017 23:09:34 GMT -5
WOW TOM...LOOKS BETTER ...As Of Now I do not Rail Road..The BIGGIE QUESTION...How can i create This ?? and high lighting this historic Engine in UK,The System and that engine...Minimal,Not to Costly installation, ?? ... ....Thnx Tom The next steam sale is rumored to start June 23rd. I wouldn't buy it before then. At that time TS2017 (the basic gane) should be under $10 (Its $40 at the moment) You can check it out here: train-simulator.com/shop/train-simulator-2017/You get 4 routes, 1 US, 1 UK, 1 German, and one French and rolling stock for each. There is also a deluxe set train-simulator.com/shop/ts-2017-premium-edition/ that runs about $47 reg price which will probably sell for under $20 in June. The A4 Pacific is a separate add-on pack (reg price $28) probably on sale for half price in June train-simulator.com/shop/class-a4-pacifics/it includes Class A4 Pacific ‘Mallard’ in LNER Blue livery Class A4 Pacific ‘Dwight D Eisenhower’ in BR Green livery Class A4 Pacific ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’ in BR Blue livery Class A4 Pacific ‘Union of South Africa’ in BR Green livery Class A4 Pacific ‘Bittern’ in LNER Blue livery Class A4 Pacific ‘Dominion of Canada’ in LNER Blue livery BR Mk1 passenger coaches Just one word of warning Vin. Driving UK steam engines in the sim is very addicting. |
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Post by beana51 on Apr 5, 2017 11:13:14 GMT -5
Old Pilots Never Die,They Just Buzz Off! Thnz Tom My Birthday Is June..Will now start Dropping Hints..This Reply will be ON THE FRIDGE DOOR....My Sudden interest In UK Steam Engines was Triggered by "AGATHA CHRISTIE "Of All People, In her Character "Hercule Poirot" Of the Hit "MURDERER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS...A Spin Off Seris For Many Years POIROT traveled all over England And France With Remarkable Trains..time Frame After WW1 to the beginnings of W 2..WHAT GRAND FOOTAGE OF THOSE LOCOS OF THE DAY...All Of Course Working Vintage Stock To Photograph...THNX MY FRIEND...LOOK TO THE SKY S..THE GEESE COMING
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