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Santa special.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:21 pm
by eno
Took the kids down to the local Preserved railway on Saturday for the annual Santa special.

http://www.peakrail.co.uk/index.htm

No pics of Santa .... (sorry guys he's not real) .... but some nice pics of old trains.

Our front end locomotive, the Royal Pioneer saddle tank 0-6-0.
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Our rear end loco.... British Rail Class 44 Penyghent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_44
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Enroute we passed this British Rail Class 55 Deltic in a siding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_55
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enjoy
eno

Re: Santa special.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:29 pm
by pepper_airborne
Sweet looking loc's!! I alsways found those british diesels look quite strange.

Re: Santa special.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:42 pm
by C
No pics of Santa .... (sorry guys he's not real) ....


Blasphemy!

How dare you question the coca-cola coloured reindeer-racing sleigh driver's existance. >:(

;) ;D ;D ;D

Re: Santa special.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:58 pm
by Anark
I was helping "Santa" with some other cadets on saturday at the Embsay-Bolton Abbey railway.

Re: Santa special.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:32 pm
by HawkerTempest5
Very nice, I love old locos. The J94 0-6-0 is the most common preserved type of steam loco in the UK.

Re: Santa special.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:34 pm
by Omag 2.0
Gorgeous heavy metal... but the Steam engine still has the most appeal to me, it's just a league on it's own!  8-)

Re: Santa special.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:55 pm
by evanatorx
Not real? What are you talking about? You're kidding right?

Re: Santa special.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:51 am
by Ashar
I love old loco's...I love trains in general too...I'm really looking forward to MSTS 2...The graphics on that look mind blowing ;)

Beautiful photo's Andy ;) 8-)

Re: Santa special.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:25 pm
by BigTruck
:'(  He isn't real?

Re: Santa special.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:50 pm
by Jared
fine set of shots of an awesome subject (in all pictures ) :)