-
clive BRretired posted an update in the group
3 weeks agoOther Railway Adventures (Sluice the rail passenger)! Only barely a week since i thought the world was overdue an earthquake! The Myanmar region between India and China has suffered a big one of 7*7 on the scale! Water in swimming pools on top of high rise buildings would ‘Sluice’ down from a great height (in the translation)? Years ago i would refer to this turbulent overspill of my bath water as (Sloshing)? People would bath back in the day! Its all showers these days! ‘However’, It takes longer for me to tell a yarn than it does for 82045 group to build a standard 3Mt tank engine, The sort that we would pound up the steep gradient of a very deep gully to enter our next station ‘at speed’ Plus some hard breaking from my over zealous driver who would try to bend the vacuum needle on its stop peg! So we are braking hard! (As normal) with a full tank of water and boiler first sluicing or Sloshing a jet of water at all our passengers on that long platform! ‘Oh ell’ My driver cries! I step over to see 60 or 70 souls have bathed again this morning! But passed with the towel to dry! The forward tanks wing nut was down to its end of thread! The rubber seal was compressed thin with constant use over the years! All the blokes might combine to assault my driver? But the thin cloth of the ladies shirts when wet i thought both revealing and very alluring for 7-30 that morning! The young fireman must handle these woes!
