>>1106143he never heard of the phrase "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and thus relegated a prestigious locomotive that would have been preserved as the first of the LNER pacifics to the life of a mundane stand-in pilot
>>1106396I have no problem with Thompson's BI, K1 or O1. his pacific's however were terrible compared to what came before and after. not to mention that rebuilding Great Northern in the manner he did wasn't necessary in the slightest, and the L1 could have been seriously improved by fitting the same diameter driving wheels as the V1/V3, rather than those of the K1
