Printable View
You're right though 4-6-2 is Pacific configuration.Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
The first example of which was the NZR 'Q' Class.which was designed as a 4-6-2 by NZR, built by Baldwin and Shipped across the 'Pacific', Hence the name.
Sorry for taking us off the track. Hope we don't all get lost.
More questions than answers, Billy.
From Wiki:
Origin of the name[edit]
There are different opinions concerning the origin of the name Pacific. The design was a natural enlargement of the existing Baldwin 4-4-2 Atlantic type, but the type name may also be in recognition of the fact that a New Zealand designer had first proposed it.[3] Usually, however, new wheel arrangements were named for, or named by, the railroad which first used the type in the United States. In the case of the Pacific, that was the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1902.[4]
In the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, the first Pacifics were delivered from Kitson and Company in 1903 and designated the Karoo Class, from the region of the Cape Western System of the Cape Government Railways that they were designed to work in.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-6-2
We may never know.[bighmmm]
Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
Next to Jacky Jacky Airfield, Bamaga , Father in Law (coincidently named Jack) had stories about constructing this airfield in WW2, but i don't think they named it after him, as he would have it.
Got it in one, Bamaga it is, back to the pictures.
Meanwhile on the other side of the country, ...
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/05/868.jpg
Ianhoe Crossing, Ord River near Kunanurra WA
Quick one is a good one , Ivanhoe Crossing it is
Apologies for delay ........ Partly frozen internet here & can't load photos so I'll pass the baton back to 'goingbush' ............. or someone else?
Just to fill in...
