Hi all,
A lot more about the Steam Trust can be learned here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3034685719
To suggest that anybody would go to China to create a locomotive such as
this completely misses the point.
The prime members of this Trust are skilled steam locomotive drivers etc,
and highly skilled boilermakers, welders, metallurgists, steel casters and
moulders, turners and fitters - - you name it and they are there. A bit
like the OM group, except that they have not been seduced by digital
trains, but, faced with the refusal of the camera maker to make more steam
trains, decided to make theeir own fron scratch and raised 3 million pounds
to do so.
And DID IT !!!
Some of this group of steam enthusiasts (one of whom has been a pen-pal of
mine for about 7 years) also make fully functional steam traction engines
either full size or to scale, for sale to Germany. And make a tidy profit
in the process.
Brian Swale
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