UK RRP £5865.00.
That’s $9853.20.
Just thort some of you might like to know.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Is that for the Scottish town? How much real estate would you get. 
Well, Alan, in a couple of years I bet that you’ll be able to buy most anyplace in Scotland for a song - when they go bust funding their independence.
Seriously thought, I know it’s the UK taxes and all the associated costs that hike it up here, but as my friend Peter Szolga in Delta BC just pointed out to me, it’s just a re-hashed Hudson with a T-1 boiler - one of Dick Abbott’s great successes IMO. Add another two sets of drivers, keep the RH tender, arrange for it to be stuck on anything less than 18ft RADIUS curves, and you have it.
Almost Aster prices, now…
Note that I DID say almost.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
I don’t trust that snake oil salesman up in ‘Bonnie Scotland’ at all. Strange how he is always right and everyone else wrong. 
I don’t usually talk about politicis on a non-political forum, but you are 100% correct.
Anyhow, there are only going to be fifty of these new locos, keeping them rare. Here in UK they are going to be VERY rare, I’d bet.
I know one Gauge 1-er who has a sixteen-car set of Alan Wright’s lovely custom-built Grove cars and the RH to haul them, and has never taken them out of their boxes.
Not once, I’m told.
His friends say that he is worried that the loco won’t work, so is not prepared to risk it.
Takes all sorts, eh?
tac
A little late on this forum but here is my video of the pre-production Accucraft Selkirk being tested in Ontario a few months ago. Dick Abbott is seen testing the loco after he had worked on it as he has done with the Royal Hudson and the recent T1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIIkPiqiQy0
As you can see it was very cold but the loco steamed and pulled extremely well. The load of our Wrightway cars was not enough to strain the power of the loco.
Alan Wright
Ontario
Canada
Mornin’, Alan - good to see you here after so long! Dick has worked his usual magic with the boiler, that is more than obvious. Seeing how his revised Hudson almost ignored the test load back then, it’s hardly surprising that an even bigger boiler has total disdain for a piddling load like that, even given the temporary switchback of the track!
We ran out of cars at 24 behind mine on one ocasion…
Thanks for the video!
Best wishes from me and the Thornburns.
tac
PS - is Dick still making his axle pumps?
If you take a look at Charles’ video (over on MLS at the moment) from last weekend’s std gauge steam-up at the IE&W, you’ll see a lot of footage of the Selkirk prototype.
Correction - Charles remembered about us and posted his video link in the next thread.
PD
tac
Hi Tac,
It is much more than the boiler that Dick breaths on. In fact the boiler design was based on the original he designed for the RH. The cylinders and rings were worked on and the design of some other components. He also produced a stack of drawings with modifications. Dick produces these the old fashioned way with pencil and tee square.
He does still make axle pumps but not as many of late because his time has been occupied with the TWO NYC Niagaras he has just finished scratch building. There are no “Box Wallahs” in our G1MRA Great Lakes Group. I have almost completed my LNER P2 “Cock O’ The North”
Cheers
Alan Wright
Arthur
Ontario