![]() ![]() ![]() There I spent five most enjoyable years studying for my BA. I then made the not too difficult a decision to move a mile down the road from my previously very happy home at Aston Shed to Aston University. I have been involved with steam locomotives most of my life, formerly as a steam engine driver at Aston Shed (3D) working steam hauled trains out of Birmingham New St Station over the LNWR lines followed, with the demise of steam, by several years of "boredom" driving diesels and electrics. In addition to buying and selling live steam models I am also a passionate/obsessive collector and always very keen to buy models of high quality to add to my personal collection. I can travel to all parts of the UK Mainland to see and collect models that you have for sale. I am an independent business buying and selling live steam models - completed or partbuilt - and workshop equipment. Price when completed.ĭelivery can be arranged for Europe, USA and Australia. Very heavy ,large and powerful with genuine patina. An excellent copy of Stanier’s tank loco that was the basis for the BR Standard Class 2-6-4 tank locomotive. Has done quite a bit of running, now just needs a final check over before it goes in for its Boiler Certificate. Price when completed.Īn in running order, Stanier 5”g. "A couple of guys torching, it won't take long to put that into small pieces, and it will be a piece of history that's going to be maybe turned into train tracks.Superb museum standard 5” gauge Britannia, just finishing off the cut away tender. ![]() ![]() If it doesn't sell, it will likely be broken down into pieces for recycling, except for the engine and generator, he said. The engine is worth about $25,000 in scrap metal, Chartier said. "I guess there's value in copper wiring and somebody did a fair amount of damage to it just cutting the wires, but apparently it's still runable." We've had a little bit of a problem with vandalism," Chartier said. The engine should still run but over the years, thieves have targeted the train. The railway ties and tracks, except the 15-metre section the engine sits on, were broken down and sold for recycling. Tembec closed the mill in 2010 and later put it up for sale. From there, the owner could move it to the closest set of tracks and drive it, or haul it via highways to its final destination, he said. That would entail hiring a crane, removing the train wheels and hoisting the engine onto a special low-bed trailer, Chartier said. The buyer would have to move the approximately 90- to 110-tonne train off the property. The price has already dropped $5,000, according to the online ad. Another caller wants to put the engine to work, Chartier said.Ī B.C.-based museum also started a Go Fund Me campaign to buy the engine but that "didn't pan out," he said. Makes it a little harder to sell, a little more expensive to move," Chartier told Up to Speed host Ismaila Alfa on Monday.Ĭhartier has fielded about five "serious" calls in response to the ad, including one from a business owner who wants to use the engine as an advertisement in front of his business. "The challenge is, with the tracks being gone, it's landlocked. Noel Chartier was hired on contract by the train's owners, NRI Global Inc., to sell it. It's an unusual item among the many ads for furniture, cars and garage sales on buy-and-sell website Kijiji. The engine sits on about 15 metres of track on the site of the shuttered Tembec paper mill in Pine Falls. For sale: Train engine tracks not included.Ī long dormant yet fully functional train engine can be yours for $25,000, plus the cost of shipping. ![]()
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