QUOTE (pedromorgan @ 4 Dec 2007, 15:19)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I am really looking forward to seeing that. soo many people have criticised the project for spoiling the loco and saying "its not what stanier would have wanted" but they just dont get the point. its about the era, its about art deco design, its form over funcetion that was the fasion when it was built. it didnt matter if it was rubbish, it had to look fast. weather it was a steam loco, an ocean liner of a hairdryer, it had to look fast.
Peter
***Yes Peter, and it *was* fast: I suspect that had it been placed on the same flat racetrack as the A4's it'd have proven its reputation as the best of the Pacifics without much effort, and it would have done it without needing significant repairs after making the effort unlike the record holder
Bloomin hard on the fireman though
***Britho: I thought that Hamilton was clad using funds from an appeal especially to pay for it wasn't it - therefore it should have taken nothing from the NRM funding - or am I wrong? Which project would you have preferred to see cash invested in?? Not a loco from one of those more southerly lines with North facing up lines I hope!
With tongue firmly in cheek (and tin hat on)...Personally I'd like to see them dispose of by auction a certain "over-exposed" rather famous Pale-ish Green Steam loco to the Americans so it could provide much of the funding to recreate LMS 10000 and/or 10001.....
Or perhaps just build another Coronation!!!
. A reborn Atholl or Montrose would be just fine, as they were the first loco many of us ever had from Hornby Dublo!
Richard