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Spinner 支持 LMS2968 在 Austerity 2-8-0 query 内发表的帖子.
A problem with WDs as far as crews were concerned was the fore and aft surging as speed rose, increasing from 25 m.p.h. on to the point where anything above 40 m.p.h. was bordering on dangerous. The reason was the lack of reciprocating balance....
2026-01-07 , 08:26 -
Spinner 支持 35B 在 Austerity 2-8-0 query 内发表的帖子.
You're overlooking the minor matter of the complete replacement of all steam in those 20 years. No correlation between scrapping rate and usefulness should be assumed given the mass extinction nature of what happened.
2026-01-07 , 08:25 -
Spinner 支持 5944 在 Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread) 内发表的帖子.
It's NP, surely we should be discussing what colour ink was used for the accounts? ;) It does seem a bit daft all the experiments and improvements with steam locos, when large parts of the rest of the railway essentially stagnated for a hundred...
2026-01-07 , 08:13 -
Spinner 支持 Big Al 在 Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread) 内发表的帖子.
@RAB3L . It's not gone unnoticed that you cannot discuss sensibly without resorting to personal swipes - (the 'only child' comment). At a stroke, that devalues your contribution.
2026-01-05 , 08:59 -
Spinner 支持 S.A.C. Martin 在 Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread) 内发表的帖子.
I will say, again, it is unutterably wearying to be misrepresented so often on this forum. The 19 standard types the LNER selected to build going forward were ALL - without exception - more powerful types than those they were intended to work...
2026-01-05 , 08:58 -
Spinner 支持 30567 在 Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread) 内发表的帖子.
But don't you think that in the pub there are many cues-- visual, verbal, body language.... ? The net is really quite a poor device for conveying light and shade, nuances of meaning. even the distinction between sincere expression of deeply held...
2026-01-05 , 08:57 -
Spinner 支持 21B 在 Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread) 内发表的帖子.
My observation as a watcher rather than a participant in most of those debates, is that there has been some fair pushback and that where that has been fair it has been engaged with as an academic debate by @S.A.C. Martin , I think though that...
2026-01-05 , 08:55
