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Good Morning, Folks! The month of May is about to say goodbye - in the same manner as it arrived, which was wet! We had a torrential ra*nfall last night, which made such a noise I could hardly find some sleep! Janie, make that coffee in an IV bag for me, please. Today is the last day of Ulrich´s Train Movie Theatre, featuring The Resurrection Of A Legendary Train Locomotive - The Return Of The Flying Scotsman LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman is a Pacific steam locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley. It was employed on long-distance express East Coast Main Line trains by the LNER and its successors, British Railways Eastern and North-Eastern Regions, notably on the London to Edinburgh Flying Scotsman train service after which it was named. The locomotive set two world records for steam traction, becoming the first steam locomotive to be officially authenticated at reaching 100 miles per hour (160.9 km/h) on 30 November 1934, and then setting a record for the longest non-stop run by a steam locomotive when it ran 422 miles (679 km) on 8 August 1989 while in Australia. Retired from regular service in 1963 after covering 2.08 million miles, Flying Scotsman gained considerable fame in preservation under the ownership of, successively, Alan Pegler, William McAlpine, Tony Marchington, and finally the National Railway Museum (NRM). As well as hauling enthusiast specials in the United Kingdom, the locomotive toured extensively in the United States and Canada from 1969 until 1973 and Australia in 1988/89. Flying Scotsman has been described as the world's most famous steam locomotive. In a 2015 poll which questioned people from four continents it was again ranked the most famous locomotive. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sOc5MsEUOAA" width="425" height="350"></iframe> Enjoy!
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