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09/01/2008 8:34 PM  
A short video of my Aster Duchess...







The Duchess approaching 150 mph scale speed.




My son-in-law Andrew's nephews and nieces came over from Lancaster to ride the trains, and see the Duchess run.


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09/01/2008 9:11 PM  
Nice video Tom I hope I can make it up to Canterburry in two weeks. I hope to see you there.
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09/02/2008 12:04 AM  
That is a beautiful train. Great bark at start up. Thanks for posting.
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09/02/2008 7:33 AM  
Tom,

Well done - as usual!

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09/02/2008 8:53 AM  
WOW, that's nice, love that high ballin'! :-) Ron Brown have his steam up, have not heard anything about it. Jerry

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09/02/2008 9:42 AM  
Tom,
Once again you had way tooooo much fun. You need to limit yourself.....

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09/02/2008 3:35 PM  
Man,
What a fantastic place to run a "Beautiful Train". Must be nice. Steve, You need to get another half acre sowe can
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09/02/2008 6:15 PM  
Ryan and I enjoyed another outstanding weekend of live steam. Good to have Tom and Tom at the meet. I do have some video to post (busy schedule this week).

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A brief of highlights from this weekend.

Highballing the rails this past meet were
Ryan and Aster GS4 operating at cruising speed of 138 smph

Jeff with the Accucraft GS4 version 5 testing having now added upgraded ported cylinders: solo run 185smph and with full train 158 smph

Tom and the beautiful LMS with "flying Aster" speed of 158spmh

All the above on video yet to come.



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09/02/2008 7:40 PM  
Charles and steamtom1,

Thanks for the posts. Wish I could have been there to see the action!

Best regards,

Alan


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09/04/2008 8:51 PM  
Thanks for the photos... Looking forward to next weekends steam-up!

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09/05/2008 4:20 AM  
For a few photos click Here.


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09/05/2008 3:43 PM  
Posted By David Rose on 09/04/2008 8:51 PM
Thanks for the photos... Looking forward to next weekends steam-up!




Next weekend, yes...


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09/05/2008 6:42 PM  
Here is the video of the GS4 v.5 retrofitted with cylinder upgrades.
Shop work prior in preparation for the run (next will be cross porting):
Original set vs. re-ported

Air testing the cylinder setup



This clip was timed at 30 sec per lap that equates to 158 smph. This setup is very impressive, I have never seen an engine with the also immediate throttle response, torque and ability to reach full speed in such a timely manner.



Reflecting back several years ago, when we reviewed this engine for SitG. Here you can see the original performance level vs. the GS4v.5 in the prior video.



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09/05/2008 6:50 PM  
Charles,

Nice job. Unique stack talk and serious speed.

Dave- See you there!

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09/05/2008 7:13 PM  
Yup, i give it to you live steamer guys,:w00t: they really haul ass...:blush:
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