Sir E Fullner Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Recently, I have been watching a series on YouTube called The British Railway Series. I have seen many engines on it, including a very interesting one. Ladies and gentlemen, bricks and studs , I would like to introduce: Deltic Now for the part when I bore you half to death with the engine's history. English Electric absorbed the company Napier & Son into its large business and saw that the use of the marine Deltic engine would be suitable for propelling railway locomotives. DELTIC (or DP1) was their demonstrator locomotive, painted in French blue with cream stripes and whiskers, it stunned the linesiders of the day. Deltic, built in 1955, was tested on the Midland Region, followed by the Eastern Region, where it was retired from service after a powerplant failure in 1961. It is preserved at the National Railway Museum's branch of Shildon And on to what all of you are waiting for: The Build As you may have guessed, this engine is based closely to a mirror-imaged Santa Fe Super Chief. A view of the driver's cab. The gas-turbine engine. For more images, click here. For more information on the British Railway Series, click here. Always entertaining, always inspiring, always: Quote
locoworks Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 more like 'baby deltic'?? that was a BO-BO loco, google baby deltic or class 23 Quote
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