Long live the Flying Scotsman!!

Fun video...

 I had my money on Sour Kraut.....

How delightful!  

Brings back memories of the Flying Scotsman tour of the US.

Yes, my Dad brought me to see the Flying Scotsman back in the early or mid 1970's I don't recall the exact year. It was in Boston at South Station.

Saw the Flying Scotsman on the PRR mainline at Princeton Junction in October 1969.  Never did get to take a close look, unfortunately.

Saw the program on BBC America. Looked like a lot of fun. Would be interesting to try something similar in O scale on one of the "Rails to Trails" former rights of way -- preferably one without a lot of highway crossings.

I have bought some of the track they used in that for a song but not sure what I`m going to do with it.

Maybe I`ll get aroung to making my stand alone On30 layout.

James

What great fun!  Well worth the lost hour of time this morning!

Yes, it would be wonderful to see something like this done with O gauge (the trains should hold up much better), but it sure would take a ton of funding for the miles of FasTrack (my recommended choice for the track work).  Somebody give Jerry Calabrese a call! 

I know a great spot to do it. We have a walking path along the old Lehigh Valley Railroad which is still graded, and only has one busy crossing along it's approximately 14 mile route (a main street, which could be detoured).

I would love to try this with a prewar or postwar engine!

Only the British can do a show like this. I wish the show would come across the pond to America.  Very amusing..

Downtown Mauch Chunk would be a perfect spot to begin or end.

That was great, thanks for posting!  The Germans made a good choice with the 18V modern train, but putting a freight steamer against a 40-year old Flying Scotsman?  Lots of suprises and even a "bang!".  Cool.

A 3-rail O race would be even better, with higher speeds and better stability.

Yes, Mauch Chunk/Jim Thorpe would be a great spot to start or end scenery wise, but the only semi-flat way out would be the railroad tracks, and I don't see NS allowing that...

I'd like to see Magne-Traction take on Traction Tires up Broadway and on to the lake.

That would be neat.

Thanks for posting the video

Clem k

Well, it sounds as though several suitable locations have been proposed. So now all that remains is to raise the $250,000 to buy 10 miles of track. (Assuming a decent discount for buying in bulk.) 

Let's try pricing again with O-27.

Okay, just some rough math here. The cheapest new O-27 is the 35 inch straight, which costs 16 cents an inch ($5.79 for 35 inches). This means:

$.16 an inch

$1.98 a foot

$10,481.55 a mile

$104,815.54 for 10 miles

This is retail cost. We could probably get it a bit cheaper because of the amount, but we would have to locate approximately 17,600 pieces of 35 inch track, and that is actually rounded to 36 inches, so it is a lot more!

I still would recommend FasTrack for reliability, even though it is more costly.  The built-in roadbed would also be a plus.

Now that the track issue is settled, Who would the US compete against ?

The neighbors to our north ?

That might be an idea. make it an international event. Have the race across

the bridge from Canada to the US...

Why not the Chinese?