Rust in Peace

Qick movie my Dad made of the end of steam.Photos © 01276

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[ExcaliburLink]

Why throw away so many locomotives?

[Trainfanz]

CURSE YOU SCRAPPERS!

[wooltman]

@gregbassace1 That's the Tories all over.

[pyrofella]

Sad, sad sight.....we are such wastefull bastards at times.....

[gregbassace1]

........but fortunately, there are survivors. Four 60 class remain, five 59's, a meager 5 out of 590 standard goods loco's survive, four 38's, three 36's & some other dribs & drabs that made it to preservation. Count yourselves lucky for the large collection of steam all over Britain, for we were screwed by government-run political VANDALISM that didn't give us any chance to preserve many more. Plus they destroyed many historic depots until nothing was left of any infrastructures.

[gregbassace1]

It was the same in Australia. Steam began to bow out for the final time in 1952 with the arrival of the 40 class diesel, followed by the EMD GM 42 class, then when ALCO produced the 44, the 45 & the branchline 48 classes, by 1969 it was almost over. If you English are familiar with our crack expess loco's of the 38's, 36's, standard goods 50, 53 & 55 classes, the American 59's & the biggest built by Beyer Peacock, the mighty Garratt 60 class. By 1975, the last loco scrapped was 5917.

[SONBoomer]

Indirect methods: higher fuel prices, -maintenace cost, -selling prices, taxes, lower speed limits and ticket prices.

[gregbassace1]

@SONBoomer Though I love steam, it's a sad fact that we can't go back to the past. The horse has already bolted, & if you think a total ban on private cars will work, think again. There's easily over 20,000,000 cars, trucks, buses & others on the roads now & abolition of private ownership of all vehicles will cause a massive riot & unrest. People don't like to be told their family car by government dictate, is to be taken away for scrap & they use public transport. It,ll never work, that's fact.

[SONBoomer]

Not to mention being more lightweight... Although I'm not sure whether that's good or not...We would DEFINITELY wont need another breed of Multiple Units!

[datawraith3080]

@01276 a good engineer on a level grade can reduce the emissions of a steam locomotive to 99 percent water

[datawraith3080]

@SONBoomer good thinking, but if somebody found that somewhere it would be melted down about instantly!

also tungsten (germans say wolfraum i would know) would be hard to alloy or cast, but if it was pulled off it would most certainly have the strength and heat resistance to work as a locomotive

[pennyf9]

@SONBoomer ooops, fail on my part, i meant today.