Fairy Queen - World's Oldest Working Steam Locomotive at Mysore, Oct 2008

The world's OLDEST working steam locomotive (153 years old to be precise!), was in Mysore, India for a special run - as part of the Mysore Dasara 2008 festival celebrations. This steam loco also happens to be one of Aditya's favorite trains - and so we had to make a trip to Mysore just for this! :) Pardon the 'camera shake' - I'd gladly put this down to my excitement in trying to get the 'best shot' without falling onto the tracks!

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• Fairy
• Queen
• Steam
• Locomotive
• World's
• Oldest
• Mysore
• India
• Dasara
• Oct
• 2008

[59n1tr0n72]

i wish they'd just leave the poor whistle alone! otherwise its ok :P

[papoocanada]

thats funny, just one driving axle and it works. dates from c1860 or something ?

[raymondleeleggs]

looks like a toy!

[dylanbobby1]

Good thing they don't let people ride on the engine. It's too fragile. I still think that Talyllyn and Dolgoch from Wales and their fictional twins Skarloey and Rheneas are still extremely old, built in 1855.

[JimTLonW6]

A truly venerable locomotive!