Bugsy
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Postcards, steamy.My wife loves the flea markets.
Don't they all? 
Yesterday the light of my life came home with six postcards which she correctly assumed I'd appreciate.
So I thought I'd scan them and share.
Steam locomotive F1200, 142.8 tons, 21.3 metres in length is Sweden's largest and heaviest locomotive.
Now preserved at the Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle, Sweden.
Electric express locomotive built 1945. 3500 horsepower.
Sweden's first rail bus, built 1932 for turist traffic in the north of Sweden.
Steam "speeder" (can't find a better translation, "ångdressin" from the french word "draisine") Built 1892 to transport railway dignitaries on inspection trips around central Sweden, using the little saloon car pictured below.
The saloon car used with the "ångdressin" pictured above.
The interior of Squire Carl Edvard Ekman's private saloon car. Built in 1874 it is the only luxury saloon wagon that has ever run on Swedish rails.
All of the above are preserved in Sweden's largest rail museum in Gävle, less than 2 hours drive from my place. We should organise a field trip there next summer.
Hope this wasn't too long-winded and boring. 
Phil
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johnreid
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Really cool pictures, thanks for sharing
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kevininasia
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That steam speeder...  What a great picture! Would love to have a poster size version of that shot. Or even better, a live steam model of it. 
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BK
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When you said "steamy postcards" my mind went off on a different track, non railroad!!!  
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tmuir
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The Steam "speeder" is a loco that is just screaming for someone to make a live steam model of.
How cool would that look on a garden railway.
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Sandman
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Great pics.
Love the speeder.
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BK
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| tmuir wrote: | The Steam "speeder" is a loco that is just screaming for someone to make a live steam model of.
How cool would that look on a garden railway. |
Sure would Tony, but what drives it?? I just blew it up, but can't see any cylinders???
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dampfmaschinenjoe 1967
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Great pictures, Phil !
Not only women like flea markets! I am a flea market seller , too. Guess what I am selling there! I sell antique railway stuff and collectible model cars and other modelengineering things to refinance my expensive hobby. I bought a heap of collectible machbox cars for a reasonalbel price : 78 pieces MIB, the boxes sometimes showing some wear but the cars are never played with! Most of them are specially made for toy fairs (only 2000 pieces worldwide). If anyone is interested in this stuff, send in a PM and I am plesed to send you a list of what I have to sell.
I bought one engine from a flea maket when I fell over it, it stood under the table and was noticed by no one other than me
It was the best flea market find I ever had until now
cheers Joe
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Roly Williams
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| BK wrote: | | tmuir wrote: | The Steam "speeder" is a loco that is just screaming for someone to make a live steam model of.
How cool would that look on a garden railway. |
Sure would Tony, but what drives it?? I just blew it up, but can't see any cylinders??? |
I'm not sure but the lump at floor level between the wheels could be the cylinders.
I agree, it would make a great model. For small scale, it could be geared down with gears mounted unobtrusively under the boiler.
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