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glastonrail	19 Sep 2008, 04:11 PM
Dommo Posts: 2,373 Group: Member Member #85 Joined: January 7, 2007	River Irt retains her original frames, most of the motion and cylinders, along with her wheels. Her 1970's rebuild was coincided with a replacment boiler, reduction of cylinder diameter and chages to general appearance. The tender got restyled too I believe. Not sure about Count Louis, but I believe Esk and the Romney locos are about as original as any other 80-year-old locomotive would be, and similar to Irt: original frames, wheels, motion. Esk has had a new tender, I believe she's on her third, since the first was replaced with a Poultney powered tender, which subsequently becamse River Mite (again, mainly the cylinders and motion, not so much the frames). As we all know the Romney tenders have been replaced with larger and safer examples as the years have progressed. Interesting comparison to standard gauge restorations there, but you have to remember that most (but not all) historical miniature railway equipment is not preserved in the classic sense, just kept running, and is still performing the task it was originally built to do - classic examples ARE the Romney Pacifics and the Ratty locos, along with Rhyl's Joan and the Suttons stock, albeit in a different location. But then, the Basset-Lowke's were regularly moving from railway to railway. [Admin hat on] Have we not had this, or a similar, discussion before??[removes Admin hat] Cheers, Dom Greenop DMR
	"There's no such thing as sanity, and that's the sanest fact" M. Knopfler, 1985 Dragon Miniature Railway, Stockport http://www.freewebs.com/dragonrailway

Originality of miniature railway locomotives · Non Gauge Specific