Thread: 3801 back in steam

It looks bloody nice in black with its whiskers must more prominant.

Black is the new black for locos, rather than getting done up like a Kings Cross Tart on a Saturday night.


Black with red Pin striping on parts & panels is my fav. & is usually more Traditional, but obviously she was commissioned in the Art Nouveau days with the pin striping along her casings & front.

She was painted grey in 2006, which I believe was a replication of a wartime scheme

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Back to green in 2007

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I'm not sure if the streamlined 38 Class locos were ever painted black or not

Regards,
Tote

I just realised my "Maurilyn?' train set when I was a Kid was this engine. This is 60plus years ago.

My mother broke it by walking through the loungeroom with a basket full of loose raffia which fell and entangled in the wheels.

This was after my sister fell off the back of a chair laughing at a joke at the Christmas dinner table , and fell on the carriages.
Regards PhilipA

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I just realised my "Maurilyn?' train set when I was a Kid was this engine. This is 60plus years ago.

My mother broke it by walking through the loungeroom with a basket full of loose raffia which fell and entangled in the wheels.

This was after my sister fell off the back of a chair laughing at a joke at the Christmas dinner table , and fell on the carriages.
Regards PhilipA

...... which was before you thought it was scrap & tossed it in the bin not realising she was worth a motza, raffia tangled or not.

I'm pretty certain I remember streamlined 38s painted black, although mostly I remember them Green. I am pretty certain they had changed from the wartime grey to green before I saw any - the only railway I had any experience of during the war was Parramatta-Penrith. (Being taken to visit my grandfather at Mulgoa)

new today...

Nicely balanced photo but cannot see a Loco.

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