Day out for Maisie

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I was involved with a fund raising stall at the 39th Transport Extravaganza at Glamis Castle last weekend. I took along a Rob Roy on Saturday and Maisie on Sunday as a way of getting people to stop at the stall. Needless to say the locos attracted a few model engineers and a few ex BR firemen and drivers from Dundee Tay bridge shed and Perth shed, very interesting chatting to them all! Some of them fired the A4s in the mid 60s when they had their final fling up past Glamis on the Glasgow- Aberdeen expresses, others from Dundee shed spoke lovingly about the Black Fives. One curious thing that I and some of my pals noticed was that a lot of women stopped and looked very closely at the locos...they had that wistful look on their faces as if they were thinking ' I wish my man would have a hobby like that...at least I'd ken where he was, keep him oot o' the pub and oot o' my way as well'

Ian

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That's a beautiful loco you have created there Ian.. looks absolutely fantastic.. you must be very proud of her and rightly so....

Pete

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Merely restored by me Pete, it lay in bits in a shed for 20 years and I bought it as an exercise in learning how to spray paint, tender had to be beadblasted and a few bits made that were missing.As I've said elsewhere Chris Vine's book was a tremendous help [usual disclaimer] and it still is as I've been delving through the book this last few days again as it's so long ago since we've had a decent spell of weather I've forgotten a lot of the procedures involved.

Ian

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I agree Chris's book is brilliant, I also re-read a few parts before spraying 4470... she's no where close to your Maisie Ian.. but she will do .. need to get on with 4472....

Pete