Re: Brecon Mtn Railway track extension, 1st day running to Pantau

rod Wrote:
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> No.2 was built by Baldwin of Philadelphia, USA in
> 1930, (No. 61269) for the Eastern Province Cement
> Co. Port Elizabeth, South Africa where it spent
> all its working life hauling limestone. In 1974 it
> ran away driverless de-railed and was wrecked. It
> was treated as an accident write-off by the South
> African insurers and was purchased by us as
> salvage. Shipped back to the UK as deck cargo to
> Liverpool, rebuilt here between 1993 and 1997 this
> 4-6-2 tender locomotive weighs 47 tons and is
> capable of hauling the heaviest trains to
> Torpantau.

That's quite a nice little engine for a rebuilt wreck! Interesting that she was built right around the time when a lot of the 2ft lines in America were going out of business.

Would love to see something like that back here in the states. It's a pity that none of the Maine 2-ft 2-6-2s survived. Would love to see the WW&F build a number 12 some day (as a replica of WW&F #6).

/Kevin