Tornado- UK's new express engine, moves for the first time!

Joshua K. Blay · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:41 pm

Forty-two years after the last A-1 was scrapped, an A-1 moves again. This is a brand new engine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjuuad2ljoI

http://www.a1steam.com/

p51 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:23 pm

WOW. That'll shut up the army of nay-sayers they've dealt with over the years!
Still, you must wonder if in the future years when she needs a complete rebuild, will it sit dormant and cold due to lack of interest, or people saying they won't put effort into an engine with no real "history"?

AlderGulch12 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:01 pm

They did it. They bloody did it!!!! HHHuuuuzzzah!

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:38 pm

p51 wrote:

Still, you must wonder if in the future years when she needs a complete rebuild, will it sit dormant and cold due to lack of interest, or people saying they won't put effort into an engine with no real "history"?

The entire point of the exercise was that by the time she needs a complete rebuild, she'll be by far and away THE last mainline steamer operating in Britain--save for any future built-from-scratch replicas (several smaller locos are proposed, from scratch or existing boilers/frames/etc.) or calamity befalling 60163..........

Frisco1522 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:41 pm

My hat is off to those folks. Good show!