Project: N&W class J on 5"gauge

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Re: Project: N&W class J on 5"gauge

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Congratulations to the successful steaming up and first run on steam of your J 611!
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Hello Friends,

Asteamhead thank you for your words.

Last weekend we did the first roll out of 611 at our club track near Frankfurt. The J runs nice and smooth,it was a pleasure to ride it. Some impressions...

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Congratulations on the successful run. Sure is a pretty engine!

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Celebrate!!
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Congratulations Chris!!

You made the cover of Gartenbahn Werkstatt, too!

Now to paint her!

Great job!

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Very Cool!
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Hey Guys,

Waow, thank you!!! Wondering that Andy subscribed that fantastic german live Steam magazin. Cool to see. These guys doing a good job on this magazin, i like the english discriptions, not very typical!!!

Looking forward to 5th Sep.,so we will driving together with the Y6 and the J for the first time...a dream comes true.

Thanks again guys and all the best.

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Can't wait to see the pictures of your Double-Header!
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Hi guys,

last weekend we had a nice meeting at our club track at Oberusel...near Frankfurt. During the meeting we put the N&W Sisters together on tracks. We were driving a doubelheader for 2 hours it was a lot of fun to push or to pull the other locomotive around the track. At the best photolight we made some pictures, some footage about it will follow.
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Stunning!
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Hi Guys,

hope you all steped well in 2022.
During a lot of work on my new house, we needed to go in shop and doing some metal work. We conected the Commonwealth tender trucks castings. All the springs are bought or made also the Equalizing lever. Still some work to do....
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Hi Guys,

just want to show a new picture of the Tender trucks with installed spring and leaf springs and balancing lever...
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