Re: New record in South Africa
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:06 am
In 3.5, it may result in a flangeless driver... right dad?
(note, it wasn't me who was speeding with the Caribou, and broke a flange !)
I think Don and Richard can attest- I go fast on 3.5". Mind, Don broke off a drain cock more than 25 years ago when the J2 came off at COALS. That was the same week that Dad & Don were at TSME and the transformer exploded due to lightning. I think "my" Britannia beat them both that year, driven by the builder. Dad made 22 laps in 20 min, meaning around 7.5 MPH on the ground, on a 3.5" gauge riding car...and I was quite a bit quicker than he was the only time they let me drive there. The most spectacular one involving me was on the circular track when I managed to fall off the riding car (which was 3.5" gauge, rather than 4.75"), sliding backwards, and then fell over sideways, leaving the train running. It would have been where the bases were on the stumps (so it was about 4' from rail height-ground), and I was lucky enough to just stun myself.
(from the TSME website, probably Hazel Boneham, photographer)
(note, it wasn't me who was speeding with the Caribou, and broke a flange !)
I think Don and Richard can attest- I go fast on 3.5". Mind, Don broke off a drain cock more than 25 years ago when the J2 came off at COALS. That was the same week that Dad & Don were at TSME and the transformer exploded due to lightning. I think "my" Britannia beat them both that year, driven by the builder. Dad made 22 laps in 20 min, meaning around 7.5 MPH on the ground, on a 3.5" gauge riding car...and I was quite a bit quicker than he was the only time they let me drive there. The most spectacular one involving me was on the circular track when I managed to fall off the riding car (which was 3.5" gauge, rather than 4.75"), sliding backwards, and then fell over sideways, leaving the train running. It would have been where the bases were on the stumps (so it was about 4' from rail height-ground), and I was lucky enough to just stun myself.
(from the TSME website, probably Hazel Boneham, photographer)