I'm very excited.

sp762 · Post by **sp762** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:26 am

I'm going to get out the camera and go to the war memorial tomorrow!

Stand by for photorealistic rerelease...

andrewgadd · Post by **andrewgadd** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:10 am

Now thatâ€™s interesting Mike, do tell more.
I was not aware that any of these locos existed in original condition.

davidaward · Post by **davidaward** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:08 am

Is that by any chance the one the NRM wanted to buy from Oz

BruceB · Post by **BruceB** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:34 am

Oh Lovely

Make sure you get lots of pics Mike - she looks lovely.

Bit of research: She is Hunslet Works No. 1218, WDLR No. 306.

Bruce

davidaward · Post by **davidaward** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:43 am

where is the loco now?

As far as I know there is currently none preserved in the UK?

BruceB · Post by **BruceB** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:11 am

davidaward wrote:where is the loco now?

As far as I know there is currently none preserved in the UK?

That is correct. The loco is still in Austrailia and indeed has recently been restored for display at the War Memorial. Also on display there is a Lancaster bomber.

Bruce

sp762 · Post by **sp762** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:23 am

This is the loco I modelled in 'Queensland' condition - HE1218...

The photo shows her being lowered into the ANZAC hall via crane, to stand on the Mezzanine level, as part of the Australians in France exhibit.

UKTS File 5708 - can't remember how to link it...

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:14 am

WDLR Hunslet 4-6-0T HE1218 [1553292 bytes] - HE1218.exe
File ID: 5708 Date: 11 May 2003 - 689 Downloads

sp762 · Post by **sp762** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:09 am

Thanks m80 - I wasn't so far off...

davidaward · Post by **davidaward** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:20 am

Yep hope to see plenty of good piccies, nice looking locos them, far superior in my opinion in looks to the American type

BruceB · Post by **BruceB** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:33 pm

davidaward wrote:Yep jope to see plenty of good piccies, nice looking locos them, far superior in my opinion in looks to the American type

They were superior but cost too much time and money to manufacture in the numbers later required, hense the Alcos and Baldwins. They were built at the begining when the British attitude to WW1 was "it will be over in a few months". Tragically, they were very very wrong.

Bruce

Frsimplex1993 · Post by **Frsimplex1993** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:30 pm

Cool thats realy COOL!

jdtech · Post by **jdtech** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:48 pm

I was like wow and you were like well good. Then they were like on the mobile.

Seriously, that's good news. Hope you enjoy looking at her, in the land of Trainz.

John

sp762 · Post by **sp762** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:47 pm

BruceB wrote:
davidaward wrote:Yep jope to see plenty of good piccies, nice looking locos them, far superior in my opinion in looks to the American type
They were superior but cost too much time and money to manufacture in the numbers later required, hense the Alcos and Baldwins. They were built at the begining when the British attitude to WW1 was "it will be over in a few months". Tragically, they were very very wrong.

Bruce

Perhaps a slight oversimplification. The Hunslets were ordered because they were an extant design, and in current production. However, British manufacturing capacity was simply not strong enough to keep up with the demand, hence the US orders.

They weren't actually ordered until mid-1916, when the High Command seemed to realise that they were in it for the 'long haul.'

In most cases the US Alco locos were found to be superior runners, mainly because of the pony truck at each end which aided stability when running bunker first. The Baldwins were built to the WD specification - for a 4-6-0 - although Baldwin's preference was for the 2-6-2 configuration.

Sorry to be a pedant.

andrewgadd · Post by **andrewgadd** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:01 am

Another interesting aside to the argument, is Baldwin were able to fulfil the order in a much quicker time. This is because they were able to start building the engines using â€œof the shelfâ€