by johnthefireman
No objection, but just wondering how you connect this one to the Flying Scotsman? Am I missing something?
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george matthews wrote:The BBC 4 tv has just shown a programme about the Flying Scotsman trip on the Severn Valley railway - a private heritage railway. It ran at 25 mph. It showed the feeding of coal into the firebox and the other jobs necessary on its journey.That seems to have been the main thing that killed steam everywhere. I don't think the term "hangar queen" was in the language in the steam era, but that's mostly what steam locomotives were. When American railroads replaced steam with diesel, an unanticipated advantage was the discovery that the steam engines didn't have to replaced one for one because the diesels spent more time out on the railroad instead of in engine terminals being serviced.
It made clear to me why BR saved money when they replaced steam with more modern traction.