What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[Jeremy996]

Saturday, we went to London, so the Grenadier did the "Station Wagon" bit. One surprise was we saw "Tornado" at Peterborough Station. I was delighted to see it as I have been a covenantor for years, mainly for the new-build P2 and the last time I saw Tornado close up was at Nene Valley Railway, when it had failed in service and needed an expensive repair.
(Tornado is a new build A1 Pacific, completed in 2008. The P2 is currently still in build and will be the most powerful steam locomotive in the UK)

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[Jean Mercier]

My Grenadier is a toy, old men's toy and I decided to put the flags of all countries visited until now with my Grenadier, quite some, but this is easy in Europe, there are a lot of tiny countries ...

And, Jim Ratcliffe being a real Brexiteer, designed his car in Britain, engineered in Austria, build in France, Hungarian steel parts, the water evacuation plugs made in Poland, the Spare parts warehouse located in Belgium, the iconic British Belstaff jackets made in Albania, etc. I decided to put the European flag besides the Ineos word

 

[Green Gren]

Added some pinstripes.

 

[Tazzieman]

Saturday, we went to London, so the Grenadier did the "Station Wagon" bit. One surprise was we saw "Tornado" at Peterborough Station. I was delighted to see it as I have been a covenantor for years, mainly for the new-build P2 and the last time I saw Tornado close up was at Nene Valley Railway, when it had failed in service and needed an expensive repair.
(Tornado is a new build A1 Pacific, completed in 2008. The P2 is currently still in build and will be the most powerful steam locomotive in the UK)

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust

View: https://youtu.be/YImxWFseAz0

Nice to see a coal fired tarin without the clouds of black smoke!
I read that in 2010 it ran rather badly on poor quality coal...sourced from Russia

 

[parb]

I went wheeling in California today. My buddy recorded me and I recorded him.
This is him coming through a particularly gnarly section. Hollister hills in northern California.

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[Adamc1303]

Digging the white.

Thanks!

 

[CRH]

Saturday, we went to London, so the Grenadier did the "Station Wagon" bit. One surprise was we saw "Tornado" at Peterborough Station. I was delighted to see it as I have been a covenantor for years, mainly for the new-build P2 and the last time I saw Tornado close up was at Nene Valley Railway, when it had failed in service and needed an expensive repair.
(Tornado is a new build A1 Pacific, completed in 2008. The P2 is currently still in build and will be the most powerful steam locomotive in the UK)

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust

View: https://youtu.be/YImxWFseAz0

I guessing you would have seen it but I remember watching a very interesting programme about the build of this.

 

[CRH]

I went wheeling in California today. My buddy recorded me and I recorded him.
This is him coming through a particularly gnarly section. Hollister hills in northern California.

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I have you got the footage of your Grenadier at the same spot, would be interesting to compare how the 2 vehicles tackle the same obstacle. The LR makes it look quite terrifying with the wheel high up then sudden drop, I'm hoping the Grenadier just drove over without any drama

 

[parb]

I have you got the footage of your Grenadier at the same spot, would be interesting to compare how the 2 vehicles tackle the same obstacle. The LR makes it look quite terrifying with the wheel high up then sudden drop, I'm hoping the Grenadier just drove over without any drama

I went through some other areas but I didn't do this one. There was a huge tree by the entrance to that track and I didn't want to pin stripe my car.

 

[CRH]

I went through some other areas but I didn't do this one. There was a huge tree by the entrance to that track and I didn't want to pin stripe my car.

I don't blame you not wanting to scratch unessasarily as I would be the same, but a shame we don't have the comparison. LR always seems to make it look dramatic and therefore convince the nieve that it's serious off roading that no other vehicles could do

 

[Jeremy996]

Nice to see a coal fired tarin without the clouds of black smoke!
I read that in 2010 it ran rather badly on poor quality coal...sourced from Russia

Getting hard coal in the UK is getting difficult; all heritage railways are having difficulties with coal, with many looking at alternatives like briquettes, oil-firing and compressed processed waste.