The tender's looking great Stew and the engine too, well up to your usual standard.
I hope your recovery from the prostate cancer is confirmed as complete, I'm about a year behind you on the same treatment path and just started on the hormones.
Jim
Thanks Jim:- I've sent you a PM
Thanks Kim I'm feeling
a lot more positive than I was and starting to enjoy life
Thanks John:- I'll have to look up your thread on the Japanese loco. I was lucky enough to visit the Japanese national railway museum in Tokyo a few years back its a fantastic museum for anyone interested in railways, as well as the modern stuff they had a great collection of steam trains many of them in running order:- one thing that struck me about there steam trains was that they didn't have the clean lines of UK engines:- they had donkey pumps and vacuum cylinder and such like and other gadgets that I had no idea what they were, I suppose they were there to handle running specifically on Japanese railways.