1 74 Book of Locomotives 



and days when the sun won't shine at all. 

 Trucks abound everywhere tiny little 

 fellows which are good for a ton apiece. 



But it is the engines which will make 

 every boy and girl miss the last bus home. 

 They are just splendid, in their neat green 

 uniform. And they have equally fine 

 names too. There is " Green Goddess ", 

 which helped in the making of the line by 

 acting as ballast engine, ' Typhoon " is 

 another, whilst ' Northern Chief! ' and 

 the ' Southern Maid ' are two cylinder 

 ' Pacifies ", very much like those huge 

 fellows on the London and North- Eastern, 

 from which they are in fact copied, though 

 rather freely. 



The three-cylinder machines have the 

 names " Hurricane " and " Typhoon ", and 

 because of the extra cylinder they are just 

 a little more powerful than the rest of the 

 passenger engines on this tiny line. Then 

 there are two powerful goods engines 

 named " Hercules " and " Samson "; these 

 have the wheel formula 4-8-2, known as 

 the " Mountain '" type. Though designed 



