Aster Great Northern S2 4-8-4 AT 5 degrees below

[main131]

Editors of Newsletters and other garden railway establishments claim 'this is the time of year to do those much needed jobs in your work shop'!
Not strictly true.
It's cold at 5 below but the sun is shining and thanks to that nice Mr Aster my spirit fired fired S2 'blows off' impatiently before a 30 min run of easy steaming.
No slip, no fuss, just another run on another day.
Please check my video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4CWmELNOAk




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[Clive Elesmore]

Looks good. It certainly looks cold. Nice plumes.

 

[mbiff]

 

[CoggesRailway]

brilliant brilliant! yes interesting I noticed Lady Anne took a bit of warming to get her burner doing much!

 

[Chris Bird]

Wow - but that is a serious machine! Great to see it running in the snow with that load on.
Thanks for sharing it
Cheers
Chris

 

[New Haven Neil]

Great stuff - lovely loco. We run in the winter too, but switch to butane/propane mix......

It already has a 'proper' chuff pipe, tac - it's a draughted fire, n'est pas?.

Now, where's the Royal Hudson .......pretty please......

 

[johnsaintjim]

Great stuff - lovely loco. We run in the winter too, but switch to butane/propane mix......

Yes agreed, always good to see the interests of others.

When you say 5 degrees below, do you mean a good ol' North American five degrees F?
I was running my Lawley at around minus 4 degrees C ambient on Saturday using butane/propane mix. I made sure the gas was at 20 degrees C from the house before I used it. The longest run on a gas tank full was about 25 minutes, which is much shorter than normal.

 

[Rhinochugger]

:admire::admire::admire:

 

[johnsaintjim]

Great stuff - lovely loco. We run in the winter too, but switch to butane/propane mix......

Yes agreed, always good to see the interests of others.

When you say 5 degrees below, do you mean a good ol' North American five degrees F?
I was running my Lawley at around minus 4 degrees C ambient on Saturday using butane/propane mix. I made sure the gas was at 20 degrees C from the house before I used it. The longest run on a gas tank full was about 25 minutes, which is much shorter than normal.

Main131 lives in deepest Leicestershire, so I'd guess that he's using the Fahrenheit scale. He puts up with me and my strange metric ways when we visit with him, though....[What's six slices of chocolate cake in metric?]

tac
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Mmmm if he is in Leicestershire then it's degrees C because 5 below in Fahrenheit is minus 20 degrees C. Or there was one heck of a temperature drop going over the Northants/Leics border

 

[mike]

...[What's six slices of chocolate cake in metric?]

tac
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not enough?