JohnH77 - 3 hours ago »
OK you railway buffs - I think I am going to get you both jealous.
I am not a railway buff myself, but as a kid I lived in what is now Zimbabwe. My father worked for the railways and as a child, I used to go with him to a small station from where I had many a ride on the footplate of a massive Beyer-Garatt locomotive. I have done the trip from Cape Town to Salisbury on several occasions, including double heading Beyer-Garratts climbing through the Hex River valley. Salisbury is nearly one mile higher than Cape Town. And, yes, they did puff in synchronism!
When I was in hospital the next patient casually mentioned he owned a locomotive - all 132 tons of a diesel which he and his group had refurbished.
OK you win.
