NZ locomotive design was heavily influenced by the American practice and manufacturers such as Baldwin. I believe the American design practices were seen as more appropriate for NZ conditions as opposed to UK designs.
Great to see JA 1275 in full flight! what a real treasure of NZ rail history ! It's wonderful to see a steam engine in fantastic nick! Thanks guys this is fantastic
Funny isn’t it you’s copied the same gauge from us over in Queensland and built some pretty decent sized damn trains. We didn’t really build nothing too big. We got the BB18’s and the C-17’s but that was it really. Babies compared to these
Interesting… I remember our ole man saying that wheel spin… getting “up in the air”…. Was always thought of as extremely poor form/ driving/ driver control… Now days seems all the rage..
When I worked steam on the N Z R we never had steam pouring out of the funnel , that is caused by having too much water in the boiler , this carries water over to the cylinders destroying the lubrication so , keep th water level down below the center of the gauge glass
The Firemen on most of these locos really knew their trade...Steam with a touch of Grey Smoke...perfect Fire for maximum coal burning efficiency. Anytime one sees Black, thick smoke, that is unburnt coal going to waste... Qld. 3'6" Steam fan.
I'm curious, so if this happened again, if they had on this trip Ka942 and Jb1236, with Ja1271 would that be able to overcome the Wheel slip of the slippery tracks...?
