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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
This is a beautiful engine. Clunky? Not to my eye. She could hit close to 100.
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I'll see you 'close to' 100 in a chunky collection of pipes and raise you....
126 MPH (and capable of 130+!) in a beautifully curved and polished steam machine
that captured all the best aspects of the new Streamline Moderne Art Deco of the
1930s.
The Mallard is the work of Visionary artists and engineers.
Your train is the work of some deranged plumber on a caffeine bender!
Again, this beauty is in working order and in my home city of York. I have taken a ride
in one of her 6 sister trains. (below)
