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peter taft
10-14-2011, 04:37 AM
For Railway fanatics, and moreso Deltic lovers, this is a special occasion :)

BBC News - Deltic locomotive back in service due to freight demand (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13592652)
Zathros
10-14-2011, 07:01 AM
What a beautiful train. It is amazing this guy first, owns a Train, I'll start a museum if I can own a train (wishful thinking), and that it was all ready to go, incredible!

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airdave
10-14-2011, 07:42 AM
My Dad probably worked on 55022.
He worked on Deltics up to 1966 (out of Derby)
whulsey
10-14-2011, 11:01 AM
Now that's cool. Forwarded the link on to a friend of mine. He's building the New York City Mack Superpumper in 1/16 that used a Deltic engine to drive the pumps.
APA-168
10-14-2011, 01:03 PM
Wonderful! Such a beautiful locomotive. Deltic engines were used to drive a vast number of warships, including the "Nasty" class patrol boats and some classes of minesweeper.
NStarkel
10-14-2011, 01:07 PM
Very nice looking! :)
Gil
10-14-2011, 01:42 PM
Nothing like that big engine sound...,

+Gil
peter taft
10-14-2011, 04:59 PM
I love the Deltic soooo much, i even made one from matchsticks a l o n g time ago :)
charleswlkr54
10-14-2011, 09:22 PM
Now that's nice, Mr. Taft!
peter taft
10-15-2011, 04:44 AM
Now that's nice, Mr. Taft!

Thank you kind sir :)
paulhbell
10-15-2011, 05:41 AM
Nice model Peter. Matchsticks=wood=card, nice.
peter taft
10-15-2011, 05:38 PM
Nice model Peter. Matchsticks=wood=card, nice.

Cheers Paul, glad you like it - i have an irresistible tendency to make it again some day, but with better grade match sticks :)
cdavenport
10-15-2011, 05:53 PM
WoW! Peter, that is a great looking model and a wonderful video! I am in a group of Yanks who can proudly claim to have ridden BritRail. In fact, I was a passenger on the steam locomotive Queen Elizabeth back in the fifties. I have loved train travel ever since!
peter taft
10-16-2011, 04:58 AM
WoW! Peter, that is a great looking model and a wonderful video! I am in a group of Yanks who can proudly claim to have ridden BritRail. In fact, I was a passenger on the steam locomotive Queen Elizabeth back in the fifties. I have loved train travel ever since!

CD, you can truly be proud to have ridden on that Great Loco, one of the first attempts of Streamlining the Loco. Glad you like the model, i made this some years ago now, but still have a desire to build it again using better matches. Thanks CD.