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by pauly » Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:31 pm
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by laalratty » Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:42 pm
That engine looks like it would be an absolute beast in power terms, bit too American for my likeing though...
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by made-in-england » Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:56 pm
Hmm not to my taste unfortuantley
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by pauly » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:08 pm
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by SillyBilly » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:08 pm
Looks like the 7 1/4in one that goes to Millerbeck.
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by laalratty » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:24 pm
SillyBilly wrote:Looks like the 7 1/4in one that goes to Millerbeck.
Not any more, havn't seen it there for a while
and I never saw it run
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by mhlr » Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:35 pm
yeah, but the Regner one aint based on a British one, its an American logging shay.
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by John Chapman » Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:03 pm
mhlr wrote:
yeah, but the Regner one aint based on a British one, its an American logging shay.
I think you will find that there was no such thing as a British shay. The IRS Society article refers to the engine in question being built by the Lima Co. and they were American.
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by pauly » Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:54 pm
of course Britain never produced shays
it (if it was a shay) was shipped over here.
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