Author Topic: For you steam locomotive buffs "The Return of the Fly Scotsman " (Read 3960 times)

redrider90 · « **on:** March 06, 2016, 10:36:19 AM »

From BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35672693 BBC
I do not know if this 30 minute program will be available stateside over the internet but it looks like it might? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b073c7r0

tris · « **Reply #1 on:** March 06, 2016, 01:21:16 PM »

Good spot - I shall watch that when it's broadcast tomorrow

Another one for the steam buffs is Top Gear racing the new A1 locomotive Tornado from London to Edinburgh Even my son was impressed when it spun it's wheels running up hill at 70mph

Devildog · « **Reply #2 on:** March 06, 2016, 02:20:48 PM »

Many thanks for that. It is a great (British) thing to honor the past like that. Now if you can just get the 'Cutty Sark' in the water and sailing again......

toolittletime · « **Reply #3 on:** March 06, 2016, 04:27:33 PM »

Personally I'd like to take a ride on it!!! I have ridden a lot of the steam trains in the USA, but when that fails, I just get one off the shelf and take it for a ride.

Today it's the SP Cab Forward.......court esy of Lionel...they've been making trains longer that Guzzi has been making bikes.

Tim

StuCorpe · « **Reply #4 on:** March 06, 2016, 04:36:39 PM »

Thanks for posting that. Will try tomorrow and see if their streaming works!

tris · « **Reply #5 on:** March 07, 2016, 01:16:24 AM »

I'm not a rabid locomotive watcher (road or rail) but you can't fail to be impressed by them

Here's a couple
Top Gear with Tornado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBHUbb3BQx4

Black Prince hauling 1000 tons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9NcNmaNjQ

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #6 on:** March 07, 2016, 04:43:39 AM »

Few things are as impressive as watching a steam freight hog going WFO along a mountain road.
Especially if she is coal fired. None of those modern oil burners for me.

molly · « **Reply #7 on:** March 07, 2016, 05:07:25 AM »

My grandfather was a mainline engine driver and my uncle his fireman, they were often in charge of the Flying Scotsman.
It recently passed through our home town on it's first trip after a major refit. Grandad would no doubt have been pleased to see it back on the tracks.

Another of his favorites at our local station.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq5Hh-jVimk

PJPR01 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 07, 2016, 09:21:33 AM »

Wonderful to watch and lovely nostalgia, love watching those old trains, hopefully they are not belching too much coal along with the steam these days.

By the way, has anyone been able to watch this new "interactive" BBC video...I click on each square, and nothing happens. Maybe it's my Ad blocker.

tris · « **Reply #9 on:** March 07, 2016, 09:46:43 AM »

When I tried in the UK I couldn't as it hadn't been broadcast yet - maybe your PC thinks you're over here!!

PJPR01 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 07, 2016, 09:48:30 AM »

Thanks Tris...perhaps that's it.

PeteS · « **Reply #11 on:** March 07, 2016, 11:24:13 AM »

Thats a cool engine. We have quite number of steam engines still running in North America. Just go to youtube and search on N&W 611, Southern Pacific 4449, Nickel Plate 765, Union Pacific 844, Union Pacific 3985. Those are just the larger ones. Many dozens of smaller ones still operating.

Pete

azguzzirep · « **Reply #12 on:** March 07, 2016, 02:28:41 PM »

"There's a little train and it's rolling down the tracks to the junction, Petticoat Junction."😀😀

And the one from Wild Wild West was cool, too.

I loves me a nice 2-4-2 or 4-6-2.

Tom

tris · « **Reply #13 on:** March 07, 2016, 02:40:00 PM »

Watched it RR90 very good
I hope that in 10 years or so someone on this site puts up a link to the first mainline run of the Bigboy Union Pacific are rebuilding
I also hope I capable enough to notice 😁

PeteS · « **Reply #14 on:** March 07, 2016, 02:47:11 PM »

Quote from: tris on March 07, 2016, 02:40:00 PM

Watched it RR90 very good
I hope that in 10 years or so someone on this site puts up a link to the first mainline run of the Bigboy Union Pacific are rebuilding
I also hope I capable enough to notice 😁

I think they are aiming for 2019 or 2020. Stay tuned.

Pete

HardAspie · « **Reply #15 on:** March 07, 2016, 04:48:49 PM »

Quote from: tris on March 07, 2016, 02:40:00 PM

Watched it RR90 very good
I hope that in 10 years or so someone on this site puts up a link to the first mainline run of the Bigboy Union Pacific are rebuilding
I also hope I capable enough to notice 😁

That actually caused me a bit of trauma about a year ago. For fun I went looking for 4014 in Google Maps: Earth. But it was obviously not at the fairgrounds in Pomona. I wondered, had they scrapped the Big Boy whose cab I've ascended many times? So I went looking on the web and then with Google M E and found that it had been safely ensconced in the roundhouse at UP Steam Ops...wit 4014 partly visible beyond the open door. Oh my! A rebuild of a 4000 class by a class 1 steam road.

Love the Flying Scotsman too. Nigel Gresley design.

Demar · « **Reply #16 on:** March 07, 2016, 04:52:50 PM »

I love steam engines. The 4449 Daylight is a magnificent engine I've had the pleasure to ride behind. Each of it's two pistons and cross slide has about as much mass as a VW Beetle. At 60mph that mass stops and changes direction about 1 time every second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Pacific_4449

I also rode behind SP 2472 after it came out of restoration and the ride behind 2472 and 4449 was a steam double header from Sacramento to Oakland, CA.

http://www.ggrm.org/Collection_view.aspx?id=1

StuCorpe · « **Reply #17 on:** March 07, 2016, 06:23:06 PM »

Tried to watch the video and message comes up that this is only viewable in the UK. Darn!

Fuzzy · « **Reply #18 on:** March 07, 2016, 06:43:44 PM »

You could use an IP address masker such as Tunnel Bear to watch programming overseas. Is that unethical? Illegal?

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Author Topic: For you steam locomotive buffs "The Return of the Fly Scotsman " (Read 3960 times)

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