[modeleng] Re: Loco looks
- From: "Chris Crosskey" <chris.crosskey@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:49:40 -0000
Didn't the Germans have a fairly attractive streamliner class(forget the
designation) and I believe the French had a class too (ditto)?
chrisc
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> The streamlined Duchess had the 'upside down bathtub'. I thought they
> looked much better in British Railways days without the streamlining.
Duke
> of Gloucester was a different beast altogether. It was built to
replace
> 'Princess Anne' which was destroyed in the Harrow disaster of 1952,
and
> was itself a rebuild of the turbine driven pacific. Duke of Gloucester
is
> a 3 cylinder pacific: Duchesses are 4 cylinder.
> Then we had Bulleids 'Merchant Navy' and 'West Country/ Battle of
Britain'
> classes. Popularly referred to in their original form as 'Spam cans',
I
> think they look better as rebuilt by British Railways. For real
ugliness,
> there's Bulleid's Q1 0-6-0, of course.
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