Out here in Australia we had things we called "rail tractors", which were basically the frame of a wooden four wheel wagon with a tractor engine, chain drive and a very basic cab to keep the sun off. They were only used for pushing wagons around a yard, rather than on the main line. Eventually over 50 of them were built, and a few of them are still in service today.
Those aren’t crazy when it comes down to it! Over here in the states we got logging railway locomotives that are often like that; Random pieces of whatever you got lying around thrown onto a chassis and made to work! I find the Lawnmower and Charlie’s Ant an interesting move in the right direction. It’s always like that at the start, but in the end it’s the effort of the past that made the present possible!
Very interesting, brilliant concepts! How about nipping over to Boston Lodge to look at their battery-electric PW trolley for possible power source for 'new' #5?
Im glad these engines are finally getting there spotlight moment...im actualy making a 3d model of the original no.7 and who knows when its done lawnmower might be next
2 questions. 1. does anyone else think Charlie's Ant looks like a grasshopper with its 4 front small wheels and 2 big rear wheels? 2. when whill Dolgogh get their stories told? when they return to service?
The image used at 2:11 is not of Flat wagon No. 19, despite the photographer's assumption in the caption! That picture is of a rolling chassis used to transport the Ruston excavator (10-RB) along the railway during the 70's - notice the height of the wheels relative to the top of the frame And No. 5 wasn't built on a Slate Wagon chassis (at least not one ever owned by the TR). The whole frame is metal (steel?), but doesn't match any of the other TR preservation-era wagons. I imagine it was purpose-built by Curwen
@@Bulgy13 Cool, any pictures of Flivvy? I think I'd have to be a member of the sodor Island forums in order to see all the volumes in the Extended Railway Series.
@@ciarangleeson2880 There's a popular late-Victorian comedy play called Charley's Aunt ,which was and still is frequency played across both professional and Am-Dram theatre and also on film and subsequently TV. For example a few years before the TR was taken on by the preservation society, there had a big British film with Arthur Askey, (plus Moore Marriott and Grahame Moffett of Oh Mr Porter fame). As the play is set in that the same late Victorian never-land as: "The Importance of being Ernest" , the characters speak in that extended posh oxford drawl , so that Charley's Aunt , sounds like Charley's Ant
