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I have been looking at the posted replies and it seems to me that folk are put off by the supposed condition. The rods seem to be on the locos as are some of the fittings. A lot of fittings on American locos are more like industrial plant than those found on locos over here in the UK, so I imagine getting replacements may not be too bad. As to injectors etc. if one can find the drawings then all parts can be made. The N&W Historical Society have very good catalogued drawings available. I was a member for some time and have their CD of what is available. On the Bluebell Railway here in Sussex we have 2 amateur patternmakers who are first class and have made wheel patterns and cylinder patterns as well as injector bodies and ejector bodies. All these parts where possible are machined in our own workshops either by the payed staff or volunteers. The chap who is wizzard at making live steam injectors is actually a medical electronics engineer. It strikes me that it is too easy to find the problems rather than to find the answers. Our latest preserved loco rescued (the U class - see the Bluebell Railway website <A href="http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk">www.bluebell-railway.co.uk</A> ) from the well known seaside scrapyard at Barry had a crankpin gashed through with a gas cutter and a boiler that British Railways started on but gave up on and virtually no motion rods etc. - but you can see it running as I write. I think the preservation of these locos needs persuing otherwise you all will have absolutely nothing. As to places to run - why not Strasburg they already have an M1 so an M2 would make a good stablemate. Come on you guys get passionate and get moving!
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