Large Scale Central

Sandy River & Rangely Lakes #24 in Wales

Prototypes
#1

Well, almost.

For those of you who may ever have wondered what the little Sandy River #24 prairie loco may have looked and sounded like as a Pacific, please don’t overlook the fully-restored BLW #2 working on the Brecon Mountain Railway down in SE Wales.

http://www.breconmountainrailway.co.uk/locomotives.html

Youtube has a few clips, verging from reasonable, to excellent…even got a caboose as well. The only difference is that here they use British chopper-lump couplingss, rather than the usual knuckles.

This one is one of the better ones - hear that lonesome whistle blow and listen to that chuff!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqxyMrsxvI&feature=related

Heartwarming stuff, though, to see this little ltwo-foot gauge loco operating for real, in colour!

tac
www.ovgrs.org

#2

Cool :smiley:

#3

Terry, this south African loco was meant for scrap, but now it is one of the most beautifully restored locomotives I have seen. What is even more interesting is that at the workshop in Pant they are working on replicas of two SR&RL locomotives, #10 Forney and #23 Prairie. Best wishes, Zubi

#4

Beautiful!!

#5
Zbigniew Struzik said:
Terry, this south African loco was meant for scrap, but now it is one of the most beautifully restored locomotives I have seen. What is even more interesting is that at the workshop in Pant they are working on replicas of two SR&RL locomotives, #10 Forney and #23 Prairie. Best wishes, Zubi
Thanks for that, Zubi - makes a visit down and over there even more attractive now. I'll take a load of pix, as usual.

Best wishes

tac & ig & the boys
www.ovgrs.org

#6

What a great two foot gauge line. Great prototype for those wanting to run Euro and Maine trains on the same line.

-Brian

#7

PS another interesting thing about this line is that it was originally a standard gauge line. I wish more old unused roadbed would be converted to two feet lines with working steam!!! Zubi