| Just in passing,
there was an article in Old Glory a month or so back about a Fowler that blew up in a field. If memory serves it was a failed stay or crown stay that caused it. Any way most of the 16 tonn engine looked to have taken off. The driver was taken away in a wheel barrow, bugger about with a bad boiler and its a half day out with the undertaker every time.
good stuff this steam! i love it |