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Re: [VIC] H220 (was: Surviving R classes)
Stuart Thyer
Photographer
University of Melbourne
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In article <f6hn8s4eiqquh3d3449ndi72e4im9i3jo3@4ax.com>, John Dennis
<jdennis@mpx.com.au> wrote:
>An excellent point, Stuart, although I was really discussing things
>that happened during the life of the loco in operation on the VR. But
>the propensity of the ARHS Museum to acquire one-offs is a little
>strange, as your examples note. Is there any other N class preserved
>anywhere, or are we stuck with 432, one of 5 in a class of how many?
Yep, there's one left in SA at Port Dock museum, don't know its number. It's
sitting out the back feeling a bit orphaned, very intact, visually very good
condition. The most frustrating thing from Steamrails perspective is that we
have 4 brand new boilers for N class sitting on the ground at our depot.
They were built, never fitted to a loco and we purchased them. Just need to
put them on something. If only we had an R class boiler in the same
situation.