On 7/9/03 5:44 pm, "Geoff Spenceley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yep, > > Singed eyebrowqs--I know what you mean!! When I first started steaming with > alcohol, at one time I had my sweatshirt alight, the loco alight and the > ties alight with a big jet of flame from the alcohol tank. Magically, > nothing was damaged except my pride--and fortunately I was running alone! > I have hardly had one fire since then, experience is wonderful! Hands up those who have never done it! Some years ago I was filling a gas fired loco on a still evening with an externally meths fired loco burning eight feet a way on the same spur. The gas crept down between the rails and the @£$% flame raced back. The very best one I have ever seen was my friend George McKie filling his locomotive at a combined craft and model exhibition in Tavistock pannier market. He had never run indoors before and turned the gas on before feeling in his pockets for a lighter. When he lit his loco there was a fairly significant bang and the hair of a lady on the craft stall behind the layout went up like a candle! Amazingly she did not notice either the bang or the conflagration (I suspect she was deaf) and carried on placidly knitting. I am sure however that it cured her split ends - or so my wife says. -- Yours Aye Tag Gorton Longlands & Western Railway Trematon Office Saltash Cornwall Directors: T. Gorton, Madame E. Lash
