Our video productions specialist, Cari Lewis, has been out for the past year with a new baby and a few minor complications(Yes, Cari and baby Jacob are fine and well!). She has returned to her editing computer and has finished a video we shot last year while visiting England. The Tornado is by far a semblance of what the future of steam railroading is and will become.

This video focuses on the need for newly constructed steam locomotives. The Tornado has not been with-out her problems. However, this locomotive is performing well and the lesson learned from this new locomotive will influence the new steam locomotives that will be built in the future.

Here in the States, we have people and groups endeavoring to do the same. We wish them the very best of luck as strive to help them in any way possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQhNGDs ... AD3c9SEJDw

JohnE.

John, Thanks for posting this very well done video. Certainly thought provoking and interesting.

Well worth ones time.

Ross Rowland

She's a nice little LNER 4-6-2, I've seen her run on the East Coast Main Line here in the UK. Fast little thing. Something to think about, most steam locomotives in the United States are at least 65 years old and older. Restoration cost are sky rocketing. When you factor in the man hours, maintenance down time & $$$ spent on a machine that has a boiler and moving parts which mostly dates from the 1920's & 30's, it may work out cheaper to build new. The general idea is, the newer the locomotive, the less roundhouse time replacing worn out parts. Maybe the folks at Wasartch may want to consider building some plain vanilla Hariman 2-8-0's & 4-6-0's with superheaters and roller bearings? Would help to keep down the wear & tear on that 85 year old 2-8-0 that you spent 15 years rebuilding. Awaiting the railway preservation firing squad - David Notarius, Cambridgeshire UK, Ex BR&W coal shovel jockey.