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Now I know this is on "Narrow Gauge" and not "Wanted" but, It's a narrow gauge engine!

Oh, and if anybody can, can't you use the Russell model, provided to us by Kev Martin.

I'd be happy to...if you can get me drawings.

trainpal wrote:Now I know this is on "Narrow Gauge" and not "Wanted" but, It's a narrow gauge engine!

Oh, and if anybody can, can't you use the Russell model, provided to us by Kev Martin.

This is a Kalka-Shimla 2'6" gauge KC class 2-6-2T. I understand that the originals were built by North British and rebuilt much as shown; Henschel also produced some examples but I am unsure which this is.

If you search the web for 'Kalka Simla' or 'Kalka Shimla' you should produce a lot of sites with pics of the railway and locos. Try http://www.ksr100.com, http://www.irfca.org/photos/ksr and http://www.indiansteamrailwaysociety.org/current4.html. This site: http://www.glynstrains.com/kalkak.html has info on the K class locos.

The North British archive is held at Glasgow University: http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/collects/guides/nbl.html. There are some locos from pre-1903 constituent companies of NB (Sharp Stewart, Dubs etc) in Glasgow, but there are more at the NRM.

Patrick

Sorry about this folks...the 3D Canvas program I download to enable me to make engines takes up more disk space than I have availible. So I can't mke it (for the moment at least)...Sorry! (And I promise the moderators I won't make any more rash promises!)

BTW, an acquaintance who is learned in these matters tells me that this loco is a North British example, one of only two survivors, the other being stuffed and mounted somewhere.

Patrick