FLYING SCOTSMAN A3 Mc Alpine 1973 Free 3D model

This 3D model was originally created with Sketchup 13 and then converted to all other 3D formats. Native format is .skp 3dsmax scene is 3ds Max 2016 version, rendered with Vray 3.00  In January 1973 McAlpine purchased LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman after a financially disastrous tour of North America, to save her from sale to an America consortium...McAlpine became involved in a plan to save the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway and became its chairman. After the efforts of Dr Peter Beet to preserve Carnforth LMS 10(A) shed, McAlpine bought shares in 1970, and then took the controlling interest from 1974 until 1987 in the visitor attraction that became Steamtown. McAlpine presently chairs the RH%26DR, the Dart Valley Railway, and established and chairs the Railway Heritage Trust... British Rail Class 60 60008 of EWS was named in his honour.I Myself have had a very rare privaledge to actually be invited onto the footplate... stoke the boiler... and blow the whistle on this Trains 3 mile Test Run at Steamtown Carnforth.. on a frosty February Morning after almost a £1,000,000 pounds costs in a complete overhaul.... An Experience I have never forgot...

This Model is easily made into a full Railway model by copying one half and pasting it to the other....This has most parts hidden... un hide as much as you can to see more...

Lyn Poddley...

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