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Nice Picture of A blast furnace

It looks pretty close to making my jeep a convertible

50m2 Fire Grate area, now that would require a super fireman.

Its amazing the growth they had. The original store did not have a phone as he wanted to get you in the shop, not wasting his time on the phone.

I, too had the problem which wasn't there when I posted last night. I did post the same section as a separate thread this morning but now find both are up again. Let me know what you have and then I'll delete one or the other as appropriate.

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Part 2 of 2 In places as many as three viaducts and tunnels could be seen on the mountainside ahead http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll170/supergoods/2015-10-25%201156%20Notch%20No%204%20Viaduct%20PA240195_zpslweyna18.jpg Arrival at Middlemarch was time to water and turn the Ab as well as switchin...

The line from Dunedin to Middlemarch is one of the most scenic in New Zealand and is operated by Dunedin Railways, usually by diesel power, however on the 24th through 26th October Ab class 4-6-2 No. 608 Passchendaele also participated the running of trains. We booked on the public excursion from Du...

Visit to New Zealand At the Plains Railway Society in Tynwald, Ashburton south of Christchurch on 2015-10-26. The main attraction here is a working Rogers class K 2-4-2 No 88, dating from 1878. These locomotives were the first express locomotives on the 3’ 6” national system. They were rebuilt w...

Another Bush Lokey from New Zealand At Havelock in the Marlborough Sounds “Aunt Sally” Barclay #718 Compared to the last posting, this is a fairly conventional 0-4-2ST built by Andrew Barclay in 1892 and delivered to Brownlee and Co to run on their 80km of bush lines between the timber cutting a...

I first learned of this interesting line reading old Railway Wonders of the World magazine of pre-World War II vintage given to me by my father. The idea of five locomotives spaced through a train aroused my interest. In the interests of progress, the incline closed in 1955 and was replaced by a tun...

2015-10-15 This locomotive is being actively modified to fit the New Zealand loading gauge and is to be fitted with air brakes in place of the existing vacuum brakes. http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll170/supergoods/2015-10-15%200903%20398%20RR%2015A%204-6-44-6-4%20BP%201952%20Paekakariki%20PA149...

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll170/supergoods/2015-10-24%201001%20Riverton%20A%20Class%20J%20Johnson%20amp%20Sons%201902%20PA230056_zpslaci7if4.jpg While on a trip to New Zealand in October I found an interesting plinthed locomotive at Riverton in the South Island. It is a J. Johnston Class A...

A photo of this Loco taken in 1974 as Strasburg 4 when I believe she had recently come to the end of her boiler certification.

Ian

While the Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 selected for reactivation is safely secured in the Cheyenne Shops, in the park is another of these massive locomotives fenced off in a City park but looking in reasonable condition with most parts still attached. 2014-06-09 Cheyenne WY 4004 Union Pacific 48841...