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Top Gear Challenges: Car vs Train vs Motorbike

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Submitted By: Anonymous on July 04, 2009 CFCTV wrote: The Top Gear Race to the North was a three way race between a Jaguar XK120 car, a Vincent Black Shadow motorbike, and No. 60163 Tornado, a brand new mainline steam locomotive completed in Britain in 2008. The race saw the car, bike and locomotive, race from London, England, to Edinburgh, Scotland, a journey of around 400 miles. Eighteen months in the planning, the race was filmed in secret on 25 April 2009, to be shown on 21 June 2009 on the UK's top rated motoring programme, Top Gear. Dubbed A1 versus A1, the race ... Read Full Story

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Streamlined Duchess of Hamilton

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From: model-trains-today.blogspot.com

I visited the National Railway Museum at York at the weekend to see the new exhibit (actually the return of an old one) - Duchess of Hamilton which was paraded in the art deco streamlining that she last wore in 1947. I found the following information on her from Wikipedia "6229 was built in 1938 at Crewe as the tenth member of its class and the last in the second batch of five red streamliners (the original five 6220-4 having been given a unique Caledonian blue livery), complete with silver speed cheat stripes. In 1939 6229 swapped identities with the first of the class ... Read Full Story

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Class A1 60163 Tornado BR Apple Green from Bachmann

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From: model-trains-today.blogspot.com

A1 Class No. 60163 Tornado in lined BR apple green with BRITISH RAILWAYS in full on the tender. The A1 Class, which numbered 49 locomotives in total, has usually been accredited to A H Peppercorn of the LNER, but in reality their construction was authorised when Thompson was still the CME at Doncaster. The first 16 were authorised for construction at Doncaster, in October 1945, followed by an additional 23 in 1946, built at Darlington.The remainder of the Class was built at Doncaster in 1949. Tenders linked to Darlington engines had countersunk (flush) rivets, whilst Doncaster tenders had snap-head rivets clearly visible on their ... Read Full Story

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An Era of Steel and Steam

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From: nationalnewswire.blogspot.com

B. Thomas Cooper - Editor Sound and Recording - blogment - National News wire - The Infinite Echo It was an era of steel and steam. It was a time of great power and wealth. Soon the world would be forever changed by this new mechanical marvel, the steam locomotive, the driving force behind the industrial revolution. For centuries, man had understood the potential of steam as an energy source, but it took until 1803 before Samuel Homfray was able to successfully harness that energy with his invention of the steam engine. The first successful railway followed soon after, when on March 25th, 1807, ... Read Full Story

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Railroad Traffic is Indication of Depressed Economy

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From: thecomingdepression.blogspot.com

Note: the graph indicated, show gas price rising this year. It is risen 50 days in a row, the longest streak in records dating to 1996. By Tom Dyson In 2005, I wandered into the Simpson Yard in Jacksonville and struck up a conversation with the duty manager. The Simpson Yard belongs to the Norfolk and Southern Railroad. It's their major freight yard in Jacksonville. "We're slammed," he told me. "We are turning business away we are so busy." Railroad activity is one of my favorite economic indicators. Railroads haul the most important commodities and goods around the country, like coal, autos, chemicals, lumber, ... Read Full Story

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