Steam Loco query

[carlwestwood]

Hi all, im considering doing an activity for great eastern set in moder days. the act would be a 'special' or 'railtour'

can someone suggest a possible loco that ould haul the stock?

my knowledge on steam traction is limited to "they have lots of wheels and use coal"

thanks

Carl

[jetgriff]

the msts Flying Scotsman is one also you could use an A4 streamlined loco.. Sir Nigel Gresley, Bittern or any one of the preserved steam A4's.. These days though any steam loco from British Railways will do as they all run anywhere these days. Jubilee, West Country, BR class 9. quite a large number available

[Lad491]

I'd just pick anyone you fancy that performs how you want it to, from the file library. if its an excursion or railtour anything goes

[carlwestwood]

thanks for you help

i have decided to use

BR Class 7P Oliver Cromwell v.2.0 [4944592 bytes] - Oliver Cromwell V.2.zip File ID: 15864 Date: 05 Jan 2007 - 2019 Downloads

it looks good and its in the top 8 donwloads for steam

[lateagain]

thanks for you help

i have decided to use

BR Class 7P Oliver Cromwell v.2.0 [4944592 bytes] - Oliver Cromwell V.2.zip File ID: 15864 Date: 05 Jan 2007 - 2019 Downloads

it looks good and its in the top 8 downloads for steam

Good Choice Carl. These were "the mutt's nuts" when I was young and actually hauled express trains out of Liverpool Street before the end of Steam. Every lad of my generation new about "Brittanias" and their popularity was enhanced by Hornby making a OO model of them.

If you wanted to duplicate your activity to use some payware stock the Blue Arrows B1s, another Eastern Region Regular are brilliant models and come on a CD with loads of stock too. Plenty of reskins on BA site for the B1's too. One of my favourite kettles. I've already run it over the GE using AI from an activity (using Train Store) and it performs very well.

Geoff

[rwaceyw]

Hate to say it, but thats just going to make it incredibly similar to this

70013 GE Steam Special [29038 bytes] - 70013 Steam Special.zip File ID: 16262 Date: 18 Mar 2007 - 587 Downloads

Worth using a different loco, no matter how appropriate 70013 is?

Dave

[carlwestwood]

Dam it!!

will have to be this one then...

BR Class 7P Rebuilt Royal Scot 46115 Scots Guardsman [993153 bytes] - BR_RB_Jubilee_Scots Guardsman.zip File ID: 13667 Date: 22 Dec 2005 - 1038 Downloads

[chrisiveson]

Erm, don't know if it's going to be black again, but it's currently under restoration to main line running.
http://www.answers.com/LMS%20Royal%20Sc ... 0Guardsman

Chris.

[Lad491]

Carl - why not pick something a bit smaller and add an edge to the activity by making it hard to drive. A less powerful loco with a 10 coach heavy train will be a challenge for anyone

[davidaward]

The Scots Guardsman model is not authentic, the real loco is rather different, and the model here is just a Jube with a different boiler.

How about these locos regularly seen on excursions around the country;

60009 Union of South Africa [2003870 bytes] - 60009.zip File ID: 7336 Date: 25 Nov 2003 - 2499 Downloads

LMS Black 5 no 5231 [1242267 bytes] - LMSBlack5no5231.zip File ID: 10913 Date: 30 Nov 2004 - 667 Downloads

(This one's now in a different livery and named the Sherwood Forrester)

The following loco used to be prolific ralitour performers too

BR Standard 4 No. 75014 In Scottish Region Status [2535733 bytes] - BR_Standard_4_75014.zip File ID: 14258 Date: 19 Mar 2006 - 1121 Downloads

This would be more a challenge being a smaller class 4.

A popular 1970s/80s performer

BR 9F Evening Star [3698912 bytes] - BR_9F_92220.zip File ID: 16195 Date: 03 Mar 2007 - 1354 Downloads

Very popular in past years with GWR fans on the mainline

GWR 4-6-0 6000 King George V [1157039 bytes] - GWR6000.exe File ID: 12130 Date: 23 Apr 2005 - 2500 Downloads

BR WR 7029 Clun Castle [907703 bytes] - BR_WR_7029.zip File ID: 8797 Date: 08 Apr 2004 - 1736 Downloads

GWR - 5080 'Defiant' - Castle Class 4-6-0 steam locomotive [1979790 bytes] - Setup_5080_Defiant_KH.zip File ID: 14079 Date: 27 Feb 2006 - 1001 Downloads

Still out on the mainline in a different livery, but very popular recently in this livery

V2 60800 Green Arrow [521107 bytes] - V2_60800_Green Arrow.zip File ID: 9524 Date: 03 Jul 2004 - 926 Downloads

Best of all a lot of people's all time main line favourite

BR 46229 Duchess of Hamilton [3133096 bytes] - BR_46229_HAMILTON_RED.zip File ID: 10795 Date: 18 Nov 2004 - 1464 Downloads

My personal favourite old main line performer from the 1990s- and one that I'm involved with running in real life now

LMS Mogul 2-6-0 No. 2968 [3995960 bytes] - LMS_2968.zip File ID: 15218 Date: 08 Sep 2006 - 1202 Downloads

A superb model, and a good one to drive not as fast as the pacifics being a class 5 but a good little puller- I'd use this one given the choice!

[alanch]

Why not use a B1 - they pretty well ran the GE steam passenger service before the Brittania's came along, with the B2/B17s.

Alan

[carlwestwood]

wow. thanks so much for your help

[prairie4566]

For Great Eastern, you can't go wrong with 60009 or 60800.

60800 has been changed back to 4771.

[emrhd01]

Just wondering, how come you can download the above suggestions without making a Log on to the site?

[kirkheath]

Course there is also 3440 City Of Truro
http://www.traksys.freeuk.com/GWRTruro.exe