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MTA
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Covered in crap, oil and muck, accumulated over many months, this is how all working engines should look!
Taw Valley as Ottery St. Mary at the Severn Valley Railway's 2002 Branch Line gala 
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| When i was a kid they was all like that. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Nice loco, when I was at the GCR in Sept, guy I was with said we like our engines tidy but with a bit of muck and grime . . .
Ellerman Lines/Canadian Pacific looks a little tidier though . . .
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MTA
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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I must've been born in the wrong era  My drool bucket needs changing
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| MTA wrote: | | I must've been born in the wrong era My drool bucket needs changing |
Steady now . . .  |
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oldstuff
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To crap, oil, and muck then. Hear hear! 
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:12 am Post subject: |
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| oldstuff wrote: | | To crap, oil, and muck then. Hear hear! |
In moderation of course! |
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MooseMan
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I spent a bit of time working in Russia - I remember standing in Moscow's Kievskaya station as three big steamers came in on a cold October evening. They still use steam on some passenger/freight lines as it is simply the most reliable and easily repairable form of transport. The locos don't look pretty and clean, they're covered in muck, but they're in full running order, and lovingly maintained by their crews.
Fantastic experience - was like being yanked back in time 60 years. The sound and the smell will stay with me forever.
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Titan
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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Does the same apply to mamods?
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MooseMan
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Bloody hell! That's magnificent!
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Roly Williams
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In the last years of steam - in the 60's - I remember they were all neglected and rarely cleaned (except by enthusiasts for photography!). However, in earlier years, most passenger engines were kept clean and polished, because they had a PR job to do. (Frieght engines were generally not so well cared for).
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| Roly Williams wrote: | | In the last years of steam - in the 60's - I remember they were all neglected and rarely cleaned (except by enthusiasts for photography!). However, in earlier years, most passenger engines were kept clean and polished, because they had a PR job to do. (Frieght engines were generally not so well cared for). |
Thats really interesting, being born in the late sixties I never saw many steam locos in use ,well actually I can vaguely remember seeing two freight loco's.
But because you now see them all clean and shiny at the likes of the NRM you tend to think they were always kept that way, when actualy they weren't
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