Chrisjo's train pix

James Spooner II...brand new steamer? They are actually still making steamers???

They are indeed. The Ffestiniog Railway has operated seven Double Fairlie 0-4-4-0T locomotives, built between 1869 and 2023. You can read all about them here.

These are two more of them, at Tan-y-Bwlch in June 2012. The maroon one is 'Merddin Emrys' the first locomotive to be built by the Festiniog Railway Company in its own workshops at Boston Lodge in 1879. The green one is 'Iarll Meirionnydd', completed in 1979, one hundred years later. Quite a successful design then.