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laalratty	19 Sep 2008, 08:54 PM
Fireman Posts: 221 Group: Member Member #544 Joined: March 2, 2008	glastonrail 19 Sep 2008, 04:11 PM 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. River Irt had a completely new tender, longer chimney and restyled cab in about 1973, the boiler came later im about 1977, and it was all done for practical reasons, better weather protections, better draughting with the taller funnel and looked a good deal better as well. I don't know how much Heywood has been removed after its latest (very) heavy overhaul of the chassis, there are 2 new axels and many other renewed bits, never mind correction of the quatering of the axels, after 118 years of being out by about 5 degrees (I think that was the amount anyway ) River Mite I belive was built with new cylinders, those on the old Poultney tender were either too far gone or too small, and again its heavy overhaul at TMA saw at least one pair of driving wheels replaced


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