I can only imagine what it must be like in England where steam motive power is more than specimens preserved in aspic and corralled in a zoo....maybe not. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjK_JJN8mMI&NR=1
or,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lSYDbYrXIo&feature=related
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
The Duke is one of my favorite British locos to watch. The performance of that loco is astounding for its size. I'll bet a lot of our steam locos here in America don't have that kind of power compared to size, and I'm almost positive that american railroads don't run their steam locos as fast as the british do even when they're capable!
As far as I know, maximum speed permitted for steam engines in the UK is 75 mph
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