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Should use something like a Shay, quite stable and would've climbed every hill in the program.
Or (more likely) a WD Baldwin for even more chaos!

Rebuild the GCR and use mamods.

Interesting reading: http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/slscotland.htm

Very interesting indeed.
Thanks for posting this Tony.

Thanks for posting Tony, I can't access the videos down here, so good to be able to read about some of it.
Grant.

Honestly, after reading that article I'm surprised they didn't go for a Sandy River 24. It's a "grand" loco and has all the stuff that Silver Lady has plus the additions of pony trucks and a much lower center of gravity!

An extensive article included in the Feb. edition of 16mm Today which arrived in the post this morning. Haven't got round to reading it yet but covers 'behind the scenes' detail apparently.

JMORG wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:05 pm Honestly, after reading that article I'm surprised they didn't go for a Sandy River 24. It's a "grand" loco and has all the stuff that Silver Lady has plus the additions of pony trucks and a much lower center of gravity!

I agree with JMORGthat an Accucraft shay might have been the machine for the job. ALL "pony trucks"...

I once saw a video of an Accucraft shay pulling a man on a 5"gauge wagon, with little 45mm rails on the sleepers between the 5" rails. It didn't appear too bothered by the load either.

Not without historical precedent, either, there was ONE shay in he U.K. at some point or other (there's a prototype for everything)

Although a shay would have been more difficult to repair if anything had gone wrong, and at its top speed we'd still be waiting for it to get there.

The article does mention that other manufacturers engines were tried and found wanting........

Lonsdaler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:10 am Disappointing that a steamer didn't get to use the viaduct, but the trestle bridge came up trumps, and the spiral looks interesting - looking forward to the last episode next week.

Has was I Phil, it would have looked brilliant steaming over that vast expense..

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:31 pm Considering I have not been too enthusiastic about the way the whole event was stage managed, in the end it was quite an emotional moment.

I agree Peter.

markoteal wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:30 pm Now that might be a second series - send just the technical build team to various famous places around the country and get them to design and build solutions to get a loco across/over/through the challenging terrain.

They can come to my house and build a new line for me...

Killian Keane wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:06 pm It might be blasphemy for me to say this, but if they end up doing a second series, I might suggest that they not use a narrow gauge locomotive, that would aid with the constant falling off problem, maybe gauge 3?

We would need Isambard Kingdom Brunel as a host for that program..