STEAMY.
LONDON, April O'. [n the enoilia -beds ilt 1 Jf-rl •>- is a quaint link- engine, said to be GO years old, still in main-line use. '1 hey call her ••Steamy." because she is steamy. She was seen on Saturday pulling a di.ten loaded trueks l.etween rows or engines that dwarfed her. Tier four little wheels he has no tender—were no hi ; ;oer than the buttey wheels o! the other locomotives. •■I should think she was pulling passengers before all hut a few of modern railway staffs wore horn," said an official of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. Throughout her life she has been tired by oil. She has only been repaired three times in the last four years, hut lam afraid she sways sn much that she rings her hell all the time, and would make any but firemen and drivers who are used to her vct> seasick.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1924, Page 1
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150STEAMY. Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1924, Page 1
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