No.130 Tornados becoming more common?
I have spent some time these last few days searching unsuccessfully through boxes for an old calendar. I have in mind a Dalesman Publishing Company calendar from the late 1990s. It had a picture of the then recently proposed 60163 ‘Tornado’ in BR green livery with Late Crest heading a rake of maroon Mk1s on the Skipton Carlisle line. Sadly I think I can remember parting with the calendar during a recent decluttering exercise. Never mind, it is the memory that counts. Whilst the picture was not particularly outstanding it acted as a catalyst and encouraged me to seek out and purchase one of Bachmann’s original models of Tornado (32-550), produced in support of the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust 2001. Bachmann 60158 ‘Aberdonian’, the first member of the Class to arrive on the layout Coming from the north east of England I think Thompson’s A1 Pacifics are one of the best locomotives to run on British Railways. I am also of the opinion that the Bachmann model captures their image to near ...