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Thanks for giving it a go - unfortunately wrong loco no's and sector
I didn’t do too well there did I..?
Everyone knows I’m a man of action - so I’m going to sleep on it.
Am I allowed to dig an old Platform 5 book out tomorrow to look it up (I promise I won’t google it)?
Go for itI didn’t do too well there did I..?
Everyone knows I’m a man of action - so I’m going to sleep on it.
Am I allowed to dig an old Platform 5 book out tomorrow to look it up (I promise I won’t google it)?
Nope I’ve drawn a blank. My 2002 Platform 5 book doesn’t list any of those names and I haven’t got any other books that are newer.
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I reckon the odds of my successfully guessing all three locos correctly is over 970,000 to 1.
So I don't think it is worth trying!
But I'll guess the sector as Pertroleum.
So I don't think it is worth trying!
But I'll guess the sector as Pertroleum.
You have the sector correct - 60024/60025/60033 were the loco's on the Totton to Fawley line
The floor is yours
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Sticking with Tugs, which Class 60 was renumbered to 60500?
SteveyBee131
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60016 which was named Rail Magazine. It was renumbered to celebrate said magazine publishing their 500th issue.
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Thank you kindly 
How many different engine types have been used in the class 43 HST power cars over the years? Along with names please
How many different engine types have been used in the class 43 HST power cars over the years? Along with names please
Ashley Hill
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Paxman Valenta?
VP185?
Mirlees?
MTU ?
VP185?
Mirlees?
MTU ?
SteveyBee131
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That's good enough for me, well done.
There was also the Hitachi battery diesel hybrid experiment with 43089 in 2007, but that was an obscure one so would have been a bonus
Ashley Hill, the engine room is yours...
There was also the Hitachi battery diesel hybrid experiment with 43089 in 2007, but that was an obscure one so would have been a bonus
Ashley Hill, the engine room is yours...
Ashley Hill
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I'm stumped for a question so someone else can crack open the power handle!
There is a US state which as at "rail peak" a century or a bit more ago, had a number of local -- public passenger / freight -- lines of a particular narrow gauge which was very rare elsewhere in the USA. These lines were all abandoned over a period of about fifteen years. Some locomotives and rolling stock survived the closures; and were put to use a few years later on a part-"heritage", part-commercial-purpose-serving rail undertaking which was created from new, in a different US state (and is active in a highly "mutated" form, at the present day).
Please identify the former, and latter, states respectively; and the gauge.
Please identify the former, and latter, states respectively; and the gauge.
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My US geography is good and I live there but this has me stumped. Pure guess the state is New Hampshire ?
Both states in New England (I think, anyway -- at all events, "that corner") -- but New Hampshire doesn't feature.
GRALISTAIR
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Good lord. Well Rhode Island is too small and Massachusetts is too obvious. Not sure why I don’t think Connecticut so since Maine and Vermont both border Canada and have strong French influence I will go for ME and VT aka Maine and Vermont.
We're here in, perhaps, the "scattergun" department -- Maine and Massachusetts (alphabetical order) are the two states concerned. Some context, now looked for...
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The gauge of the lines was 2 foot. The "part heritage" operation was the Edaville Railroad - originally on a fruit farm. What more information do you need ?
Two-foot: yes. Original state; and state wherein "Edaville" located; which was which?
martinsh
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Oh sorry. Sources always refer to the "Maine two footers" - so I guess Edaville must be in Massachusetts
That's it -- at South Carver, Massachusetts. Originally set up in late 1940s, by the entrepreneur and railway enthusiast Ellis D. Atwood (the name "Edaville", from his initials): using ex-Maine 2 ft. gauge equipment, for a small system on that gauge, to service his cranberry plantations; and to give rides to trippers at weekends. The line kind-of survives nowadays; but purely as a -- from what I read of it, rather tacky -- "fun thing".
@GRALISTAIR,martinsh -- you've both contributed to answering; could I ask you to sort between yourselves, who sets the next question?
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@martinsh - be my guest
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OK. Here goes. An Irish narrow gauge question specially for Mr Calthrop !
What was the commonest wheel arrangement for Irish narrow gauge steam locos ?
What was the commonest wheel arrangement for Irish narrow gauge steam locos ?
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2-4-2
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I'll go for 2-6-2T on the basis of the West Clare and Tralee & Dingle.
martinsh
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That's a very good guess ! 4-4-0T is correct.