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    WEATHERING LYN

    Dec 30, 2021 5 minutes
    Words & photography: Phil Parker

    Can you weather a locomotive to look clean?

    Steams locomotives, by their nature, are mucky things. Dirty coal goes in one end, and smoke and ash comes out. As they work, dirt is thrown up from the trackbed and also falls out of the sky. Those who have seen photographs from the end of steam will know, some can look filthy.

    Travel back in time, though, and crews took pride in their locomotives. With labour being cheap, the main lines employed plenty of cleaners to spruce up the fleet. While small narrow-gauge concerns might not have enjoyed the same staffing levels, there was still a pride in their appearance, and so the crew wouldn’t let their locomotive get too mucky.

    My subject today is a Heljan OO9 Lyn, although all these methods are

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