Forest Fields Railway September steamup
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 8:39 pm
Yesterday was the second Saturday in September, which could only mean one thing, the second steamup of the year at the Forest Fields Railway. Knowing how much fun this line can be to run on, I asked James (Dolwyddellanlightrail) whether he wanted to come to. His answer was an emphatic yes!
Matt was also present with his Lawley Whinlatter
Pheonix with my coaches, leaving a smokescreen as usual
King Arthur comes to the bottom of the spiral
Oil needs turning down perhapes?
I bought along Russell. Unfortunatly it's a swine to drive and take pics of at the same time, so this is the only one I got of it on the move
After years of persuading, PTLRcecil has finally realised that triple headers can be fun. Pheonix leads Whinlatter and King Arthur on the noisest and longest train of the day
Later, Pheonix left the 0-6-0T's to it
Russell and King Arthur then went top and tailing
Meanwhile on shed, Garratt superpower was raising steam
And making even more smoke then Pheonix. PTLRsam was seen putting lube oil down the chimneys
Powis Castle slogs up the hill before running out of steam, the performance of this beast is still not really optimised and it will probably be off to visit the PTLR works!
Black Coombe, which also became a failure when it melted its radio gear. So the superpower turned out not to be so "super" after all
Passing garratts
A final shot of superpower that did work!
Thanks to FFR Mike and co for another great steamup
Matt was also present with his Lawley Whinlatter
Pheonix with my coaches, leaving a smokescreen as usual
King Arthur comes to the bottom of the spiral
Oil needs turning down perhapes?
I bought along Russell. Unfortunatly it's a swine to drive and take pics of at the same time, so this is the only one I got of it on the move
After years of persuading, PTLRcecil has finally realised that triple headers can be fun. Pheonix leads Whinlatter and King Arthur on the noisest and longest train of the day
Later, Pheonix left the 0-6-0T's to it
Russell and King Arthur then went top and tailing
Meanwhile on shed, Garratt superpower was raising steam
And making even more smoke then Pheonix. PTLRsam was seen putting lube oil down the chimneys
Powis Castle slogs up the hill before running out of steam, the performance of this beast is still not really optimised and it will probably be off to visit the PTLR works!
Black Coombe, which also became a failure when it melted its radio gear. So the superpower turned out not to be so "super" after all
Passing garratts
A final shot of superpower that did work!
Thanks to FFR Mike and co for another great steamup
