{"product_id":"3-12-inch-gauge-pacific-pamela-stock-code-5408","title":"3 1\/2 inch gauge Pacific \"Pamela\"","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eI grew up with the designs of LBSC - indeed started off   building a \"Tich\". As I've got older - and owned many hundreds of   engines of all shapes and sizes - increasingly I look at the older engines and   wonder if we haven't lost something, even as the designs, materials and   processes available to us get ever more wondrous. Given the amount of help   available - from CAD to laser-cutting - I'm not sure there are more great   engines being built today than there were fifty years ago. More detailed - yes.   But really good, well put together engines - capable of performing as their   designer intended, year   in, year out at the club - no, I think they're as rare today as they've ever   been.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis is such a well put together engine, a fine example of   LBSC's freelance Pacific \"Pamela\". The work of a supremely talented builder - in fact his first engine   and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/5-inch-gauge-4-10-2-innovare-stock-code-5409\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eif you want to know what he was   doing fifty years later you need to look here\u003c\/a\u003e - this is an engine with   pedigree, form and great history.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCompleted in the early 1950s, while he was still a young,   single man, the engine was a regular performer at his club. A sheaf of   correspondence from the 50s and 60s records the high standing in which he and   his engine were held by the club - regular requests were made for it whenever a   gala or open day came along to bolster the motive power available, much comment   was made about its performance and reliability, sufficient to take the club's   \"H.E.White Locomotive Competition Trophy\" in 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe engine is nearly sixty years old. It runs like a sewing   machine, the motionwork is tighter and better fitted than many five year old   engines we see. Even back in the 1950s, the builder's distinctive ideas were   surfacing - the engine is mightily ballasted out with lead, it's a substantial   two-man lift; the injector steam valves are fast action push-pull types,   arranged on a manifold off the backhead; the motionwork and valvegear is mainly   from silver steel, hardened and tempered which explains its extraordinary   condition after fifty years of doing the job it was built for.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSilver soldered copper boiler with superheaters, 80psi   working pressure, feed by twin injectors with hand pump in the tender. The   injector water feeds are fitted with filters and removable plugs for when the   engine is not in use. Gunmetal cylinders with piston valves actuated by   Walschaert's gear with pole reverser in the cab. Mechanical lubricator.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePaintwork is original, it's generally good although the boiler barrel has darkened   with heat over the years. It could be repainted - my personal feeling is   that it's a lot quicker to remove sixty years of history than create it.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe engine is complete with a pair of substantial crates   for locomotive and tender, an original general arrangement blueprint and a box   of parts, spares and boiler testing plugs - all the paraphernalia associated with a   long, productive running life.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe engine needs a pair of injectors - the originals have   gone missing at some stage, almost certainly made by the builder as seen on his   later engine. It's otherwise ready to use, in fine mechanical order throughout   and still a highly capable performer. Jon had it in steam last week and was most   impressed with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ciframe width=\"353\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UEgSZ4EGVuo?si=ybPTGninVeXiH5kc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54019979903317,"sku":"5408","price":3950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/5408-1.webp?v=1779908932","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/3-12-inch-gauge-pacific-pamela-stock-code-5408","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}