http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVYS7xj3eic&feature=PlayList&p=3A60107E9C753570&playnext=1&index=43
Ah..a single locomotive in a single class 26C...what could have been the SAR equivilent of a NYC Niagara Class I understand all Wardales improvements were removed..Anyone know her current status?
Heres also a brief segment of her double headed with a 25NC
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Thanks for showing us South African steam at its best!
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Thanks for the links!
Man.......you just have to love the spinning propeller on the lead engines smokebox in the first doubleheader!
SAR had some great steam and the Red Devil was truly an advanced and impressive engine. I loved the SAR 4-8-2's.
Roger Huber
wallyworld... I understand all Wardales improvements were removed..
The answer is prosaic as this engine was a one of a kind, a single example of a classification. This created some operational issues as engineers unfamiliar with just how different she was would inadvertantly defeat her uniqueness and efficency by running her as though she was a standard. In practice, having a one of a kind engine if you are not using it to tinker with, is contrary to practicality.The same applies to maintennance issues.
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