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its a nice day so I thought Id run my millie


pressure was soon up and she chuffed slowly round














ten I decided to add a wagon of coal behind her so I used my hand to just hold her still while I hooked the wagon up, but in the few short seconds it took me to do this the pressure in the boiler rocketed and as soon as I let her go she flew off and before I could catch her she had left the track at castle curve

quickly got her back on the track luckily the new valve gear wasnt damaged but the paintwork took 1 hell of a beating :-|





it coud be worse I suppose....



the cylinder took most of the impact





oh well these are the risks we take running our trains outside....

Sorry to see that - I suspect a repaint is going to be needed, in which you're going to perhaps learn a number of new skills!

nah Im not gonna repaint it, its not as bad as it looks (the camera picks up flaws the human eye doesnt)

I mean its not like the narrow gauge railways of 1950 had spotless engines is it  ;)

turning off the steam valve first would be the first lesson

urr what ?

oh yeah I get it

That loco is about as lucky as you Pauly !