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« on: June 16, 2026, 07:42:23 »
An article by Nick Feast.

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A fellow member of Bournemouth Model Engineers had started to build a Q1 to my design several years ago.  However the project was offered to me, and although I had already completed 2 locomotives as detailed in the Model Engineer series in 2009, I thought I could make use of a third one!
                                                   
I had an idea in the back of my mind that I had seen a drawing of a proposed 0-6-4 tank engine in print somewhere but couldn't find it, so went ahead with my own interpretation of what a Q1 tank might have looked like.
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