26th August 1914 according to the Shaylocomotives.com website. Two truck 3 cylinder shay.

Clues - it is on an island with 15 other survivors. The railway owned 20 Shays. It weighs 28tons.

As I said, it, and other locos in its class were modified to make them unique Shays.

Thanks ScottyChaos for posting the photo- technology don't you just love it

Hi Alex

I tried and it worked ok. I see you have an email address on your profile so will send it to you. Maybe you can post it for me for others who have a similar problem.

Thanks

Paul 

Can't seem to load a photo using browse function so here is a link. If you look around the web-site you should be able to answer 2 of the 3 questions. Otherwise try to guess.

1 Location
2 Approx year
3 Unique mecahnical alteration made by the Railway company to this loco and others in class- not the ugly stack, which I think is also unique. BTW Railway ran two classes by this manufacturer- smaller class unmodified

http://www.citycat.hdud.idv.tw/logging/log10_1.jpg

Not a huge demand for HK locos I guess. I have a contact in Taiwan who is doing some short-order stuff for Taiwanese prototypes in HO.

according to the internet that is a Providence and Worcester M420 #2005 at Worcester MA on October 1 1989.
Is that cheating ?

''What is the factory's Chinese name...I know that they are putting in a new Chinese name for their holding company for stock exchange purposes.

Speaking of which, are you member of the HKRS?''

Yes I saw Kader are adopting a Chinese name, I have only seen it in Chinese script so not sure what it looks like in Romanized characters. Maybe I can ask my contact for a factory visit, then I might see the new product lines in the flesh.

No not a member of HKRS


Paul

Just to throw fuel onto the fire here is a quote from a thread on another site, I cannot verify its accuracy-

''The 126 mph figure corresponds to a blip on the speed graph, with physically impossible accelerations. It must have been due to a jolt, or,
according to British railfans who unearthed a second speedgraph copy without the bump, later doctoring.
Indeed the railway engineers themselves (including designer Sir Nigel Gresley) certified 125 mph (201.2 km/h) as the true top speed achieved - but that is within the margin of error with the other two contenders below.
The Mallard achieved the record downhill, and
with modifications unfit for more than a single run - indeed the Mallard broke down at the end of the record run with a hot axle.''

There is another issue here- is it a world record or a world fastest time. As I understand it you cannot have a world record in the Athletics Marathon because of the huge variation in conditions- just a world fastest time. By contrast the world land speed record is measured using a set of pre-determined criteria to try to achieve some level of uniformity.

What is undoubted is that Mallard is [almost] universally quoted as having achieved the fastest speed by a steam locomotive. There is little doubt that other locomotives had the ''potential'' to go faster, and may have done so without any recording equipement on board.

The other two contenders referred to in the thread were-

Deutsche Reichsbahn's [class] 05 [no.] 002

Milwaukee's "Hiawathas".


Here is the website-

http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2005/10/10/4437/7476

''what will be next?  indoor plumbing and that new fangled tellyophone''

Actually in many parts of China- yes. This is a country that was at one time the greatest on the planet, and then through wars, famine, etc etc went backwards to a point where human life was very cheap, and different values appled.

I live in Hong Kong and have visited Kader- as said before, they are subject to the laws here. Although Hong Kong has reverted to China, there is a  one-country two-systems agreement which includes the rule of law which is still basically that introduced by Britain.

Nowadays there is virtually no manufacturing in Hong Kong as it has moved to China. I understand Kader's factory is owned by them, and as such should offer a lot less concern that some manufacturers and products.

n.b. most of Hong Kong's food comes from China- now that is a little worrying.

Western Region of British Railways- 'Warship' Class. With optional face and shovel.

Alex/Guilford Guy- this is a really excellent thread. As I am new to it can you explain what happens about the previous pictures that were not guessed ? Did I see something about them lapsing if not guessed within 24 hours ?

As you got Scottychaos's photo, will you now post ? If not am I free to post one ?

SD40-2B ?

Actually if its a Shay superstructure with Kitson Meyer underpinnings built by Oeste would that make it a Oeste-Shay-Kitson-Meyer, or even a Oeste-Lima-Kitson-Meyer.

Do we have two on the go now ?

Difficult not to read the caption for The Kitson Meyer. Line was originally 2'6", and coverted to Metre Guage later. Photo looks early so still might be 30" at that time. Also surprised if they used a Shay as basis, but stranger things.......Wikipedia says that two locos were built by the company themselves. I would think that if you were going to build a loco you would not start off with a complicated loco like the Kitson Meyer. Kitsons were a loco company in Leeds England who developed the Meyer design. Another English company, Bagnalls of Stafford, also built articulated locos of this design. One is preserved in Wales- currently on Welshpool and Llanfair.

The MBTA 6908- not a clue.

I don't see too many happy faces concerning the 4-4-0 and it does seem a strange choice. The announcement actually referred to more news at the Chicago show in October, so we may still have something else,.

Having said that if I was Bachmann I would do all the announcements at this show especially at this time in the year to help the Christmas present list.

Thanks for the suggestions- much appreciated. You guys are an excellent online resource.