Re: puffing billy Rlwy and Zbigniew,
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:09:40 +1100 From: "Gordon Watson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zbigniew, I was glad to see your final infection with steam took place on our Railway.. If you can remeber the trip,after the first station[Menzies Creek] the train ran down hill with long views out to the right hand side over [...] Dear Gordon, Thank you very much for the note! I was actually going to ask on the list whether you have ever produced this loco because it did not escape my attention that you have it in your logo. Maybe I will be fortunate enough to come across it some time. Or maybe you will start making it again at some stage...? Puffing Billy is going to celebrate 100 years birthday next year, that should be a good opportunity for someone to make it more popular. It has such unique motive power! The Garratt is just brilliant. I got the book about it at the Belgrave station. In live steam this would be a true dream to have... And I suppose a nightmare to make... Apparently (if I can see it right in Vance's web pages) a firm called DJB in England makes a distant cousin of the NA class loco the 2-4-2 Baldwin of the Lynton Barnstaple. (This is the same loco as the one Bachmann released.) This is however by far not as pretty (personal bias here) as the NA class... Unfortunately I did not go further than the Menzies Creek station. I had only half a day for this trip and so I could only travel the first part. Gives me a good reason to go there again!! I will have a good look at the Argyle shed then;^). Best wishes, Zbigniew
puffing billy Rlwy and Zbigniew,
Zbigniew, I was glad to see your final infection with steam took place on our Railway.. If you can remeber the trip,after the first station[Menzies Creek] the train ran down hill with long views out to the right hand side over farmland and forest and then crossed a road and along alevel stretch fairly straight.if you had looked to the right hand side you would have seen our home and Argyles Shed! We built a run of NA class locos as our first commercial model about 10 years ago, they are a big..loco in this size,about the size of this keyboard,and had springing on all axles, axle pumps, working side tanks and baldwin 4 bar crossheads[ which are a B to fit up!each one took 150 hours too build and where sold for about half thier true value..a good first lesson in this business. gordon Watson.
