Ben Cooper's for me. Proper smooth engines 🙂
Also I didn't realise they preserved Turbinia. Where is it on display?
I was just going to ask the same thing, what museum is that?
Turbinia's in Newcastle, isn't it? I love the story of the demonstration too, Charles Parsons was being ignored by the Admiralty so he turned up uninvited at Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee navy review, and charged about at high speed showing off, with a Navy boat trying and failing to catch him 😉
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Turbinia's in Newcastle, isn't it? I love the story of the demonstration too, Charles Parsons was being ignored by the Admiralty so he turned up uninvited at Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee navy review, and charged about at high speed showing off, with a Navy boat trying and failing to catch him
I loved that tale too.
Imagine the greatest and most powerful fleet the world had ever known, and this mosquito buzzing through them and they couldn't do a thing. 🙂
Southern Pacific AC-12 Cab Forward for me. Built in response to drivers suffocating in the huge snow sheds over California's Donner Pass. Oil fired, so they could rotate the front part of the loco and put the crew in front of the funnel, and give them far better visibility. They're massive too.
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They scrapped 19 of the 20 of them, with one preserved in non-working order in Sacremento. Travesty.
Turbinia's in Newcastle, isn't it?
yep she's in the Discovery Museum though the engines are on display at the Science Museum London.
Imagine the greatest and most powerful fleet the world had ever known, and this mosquito buzzing through them and they couldn't do a thing.
I imagine they could have just blown him out of the water, but that would have been rather unsporting 🙂
