A 1 Tornado

Dave Lewandoski · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:58 pm **Posts:** 1083

Just a good photo of this recently-completed locomotive.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 67&nseq=30

JohnCloos · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:59 pm **Posts:** 308

While I understand the reasoning/logic behind it,, in my opinion that
"www.a1steam.com" lettering on the tender needs to go ASAP !
The front plate is a nice touch, but that lettering on the tender just
makes me cringe.

Aarne H. Frobom · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:52 pm

I suspect this is a primer coat for use only during break-in runs. All the promotional materials for Tornado show it in British Rail 1950's dark green. Remember that to LNER fans, this engine looks like a new J3a would to NYC fans, so a non-historic paint job isn't likely to be tolerated for long.

Aarne Frobom
English Muffin Estate, Berks., Michigan

Joshua K. Blay · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:26 pm

Actually she will be painted in early British Railways apple green. Scheduled to happen in the next month or two.

Joshua in Berks, PA!

robertmacdowell · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:03 pm

Hey... this is a brand-new mainline super-power steam engine actually engineered to be suited to mainline service on today's English rails, which are about as busy as our northeast corridor. Anyone with the gumption to do that can paint anything he damn well pleases on the tender! *laugh*

This is a stupendous achievement.

Now, here's the question. Which would be harder, this or finishing 1361?

kgrubb · **Joined:** Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:03 pm **Posts:** 10

i'm gonna go out on a limb on this but apparently fininshing the 1361 is harder i mean they built a brand new steam locomotive and the 1361 is still in pieces somewhere not sure where its at right now.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:56 am

robertmacdowell wrote:

Now, here's the question. Which would be harder, this or finishing 1361?

Perhaps the proper comparison would be this versus building a new, up-to-code NYC Hudson or Mohawk.

If you guaranteed said loco and whatever train it pulls access to the ex-NYC between Harmon and Chicago and/or other appropriate ex-NYC mains once completed, I would dare to say you'd get another NYC steamer built. Just expect it to take 20+ years of "the price of a pint a week" or similar $150-300 a year pledging by loyalists.......

Onder · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:46 pm

Amoung the many advantages the UK rail types have over USAians
is that they are younger by at least ten years. In the east here,
steam was history on the NYC by summer 1952. In UK it was
1967-68 to see the last of steam.
Plenty of retired or nearly retired in UK are willing to pony up as
they were teenagers at the time. Here many of us werent
even alive.
They have the more powerful memory and incentive.