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sncf231e posted:

More live steam!

Bassett Lowke made, as shown in the catalogue of 1911, some spirit fired locomotives to a gauge of 3 and a quarter inch (scale 1:17). I do not know whether these were meant to be run pulling the "engineer" or that you were expected to have a large (scenic) layout. In the catalogue are also some carriages shown. Three and a quarter inch was soon abandoned and 3.5 inch is now one of the model engineering gauges. I found a Bassett Lowke  GNR (Great Northern Railway) Atlantic 4-4-2 with this gauge and planned to restore it. I could not, but a friend started on it and last Sunday it was fired up for the first time in, I do not know how, many years.

 

Is it tinplate? Well, it is vintage!

Regards

Fred

Fred, maybe more steel plate than tin but that is a really wonderfull piece, well restored and i think you can find the small missing parts. Even if it is not an easy loco to run that makes a terrific loco to display, I really would enjoy to find one....

Very best, Daniel

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