As the weather has been fairly mild on this first day of 2008, it was definitely time for a steam-up! I decided to steam my MSS loco, as she hasn't been run for a while. The MSS loco is the basic Mamod design, though mine has had a few modifications: narrower chuff pipe, IP Engineering steam lubricator, plus meths burner & uprated safety valve from PPS steam models. The MSS is the only meths-fired loco on the line, so makes a nice change to run. Although suffering the standard Mamod characteristic of 'scalded-cat' like peformance, this is reduced somewhat by the narrower chuff pipe, and a rake of a few wagons will tame her, even on the sharp curves of my line. 
She put in a good performance today, though even my two year-old daughter commented un-prompted: 'Skarloey very fast engine' (as previously noted, she relates to all trains via their Thomas the Tank Engine equivalent; all of the (by chance) maroon steam locos on my line are therefore Skarloey!).
All in all, a pleasant way to mark the New Year!
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