What could be better than.....

[N2CHX]

Bacon and steam engines? Except maybe cooking bacon on your steam engine....

[KG4CGC]

Bacon Butties!

[NQ6U]

On a sort of related note, I once read in a rail magazine that Chinese steam locos had a spot for a tea pot built right into the backhead.

[N2CHX]

On a sort of related note, I once read in a rail magazine that Chinese steam locos had a spot for a tea pot built right into the backhead.

If you look at the videos from the Great Central Railway in Britain, they have little white coffee mugs on the plate over the boiler doors.

[kb2vxa]

Now that's what I've been talking about here and there, cooking lunch on the coal scoop is a long standing British railway tradition. It's good to see the tradition carry on, I also noticed the loco is LNER 4771 Green Arrow Class V2 designed by Sir Nigel Gresley built in 1936 at Doncaster Works. That must have been just before it was withdrawn from preservation running just before the boiler certificate expired. Now it's on static display at York awaiting overhaul for mainline running.

Oh BTW Kel put York on your bucket list, the National Railway Museum has displays beyond words. There you'll find LNER 4468 Mallard, A4 Class perhaps Gresley's masterpiece being the fastest steam locomotive in the world at 125.88mph.

[KB3ZGV]

Those British locomotives were wimpy in comparison to what we used in the USA



Like this Reading 2-8-8-2

And the screw couplers the used were gay.

[KG4CGC]

[kb2vxa]

Look again, that's copper. (;->)

[n2ize]

Those British locomotives were wimpy in comparison to what we used in the USA



Like this Reading 2-8-8-2

The British locomotives were faster and more efficient.

And the screw couplers the used were gay.

Actually they are quite innovative.

[NY4Q]

Speaking of steam, a friend of mine who was a steam engine designer passed last month. RIP Bob.

http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/...hp?f=8&t=94686

This page has a recent photo of Bob.

http://www.steelwheelonsteelrail.com/