I am from Pedorido, Portugal. My father and both of my grandparents worked in the mines, which closed in 1991. There were 5 of those locomotives, and one of tem is still on display on the town hall, although not working. João Moutinho also lives here and his house is right where the mines used to be.

As Portuguese, I pardon your pronunciation because of your humbleness

not being able to whistle...good lord where's the fun in that? that like...most of the point of having a steam engine! Great video and great series by the way. just stumbled across it and I'm hooked to be honest!

16:10 loco be like: "You sure you want more power? Absolutely sure? ALL RIGHT THEN!"

who doesn't like the sound of a good steam whistle?

Cute little steamer, I love steam locomotives, my all-time favorite is the Union Pacific Big Boy 4-88-4 articulated, designed for use hauling freight over the Rocky Mountains in the mid-west here in the USA. Diesel-electric locos are easier to maintain and run, but there's nothing like the sound of steamer coming at you.

Bugger the neighbours. Should be allowed to whistle to your hearts content.

Koppels are such clean looking things. Seems like you had a lot of fun with this one! The Germans really were clever about the ergonomics of this thing with that slick toolbox, that firedoor, and some very well laid out controls. That pump is really cool! It's like someone has attached a model engine under the locomotive! Love your channel for showing us all these interesting features that most people wouldn't really notice or point out in great detail.

I like how it sounds like a bigger loco than it is.

This loco felt somewhat familiar to me. It turns out that a heritage railway I used to visit very often as a child (Stoomtrein Katwijk Leiden, previously known as Het Smalspoor Museum) also runs some O&K locos! It’s nice to know that there are more engines like the ones from my childhood running on lines across the world

Just discovered your videos a few days ago. I am hooked. Love all things railroading. In this video you mentioned the center driver is flangeless. In the states we refer to this type of driver as "blind".

Not many Steam locos from the US are capable of visiting the UK because of loading gauges and stuff, but a Maine 2 footer could probably, do it. Seeing this engine made me think of that.

Thank you! Love the engine- gives modelers an appreciation for what seems to be a simple engine but what really goes into driving a real engine.

Thank you for the video. Those mines are located in the village were I was born and lived for 32 years. My grandfather worked with the locomotives. It means a lot for us.

One of my favorite little locos!

love the videos keep them up and loved the little locomotive

Beautiful little loco

She looks just like the classic LGB Model train "Stainz" (the prototype is actually still in service in Austria).

There's something so cool hereing a steam engine working really bloody hard

I really enjoyed! Wonderful sounding engine!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Spent a fair amount of time at wormshill as a kid. Used to love it so much there.

I joined you when you were in North Carolina. I do enjoy 😊 history, especially hands on. Unfortunately a wee bit of traveling to get there from Washington State!

16:02 I was not expecting that one, that must have been terrifying hahaha

Dude that thing moved you weren’t lying lol

oh wow that sound

That makes a great sound. Makes it sound much bigger than it actually is.

Been enjoying your videos after stumbling on your Rushton videos. Would like to see a look at the Y7 video one of my favourites

I'm not a big fan of trains but steam engines are just beautiful and satisfying to see in action, I am disappointed that the whistle couldn't be blown, amazing pieces of machinery

am I the only one that Sees Bulgy and Trevor in the background ? 1:35

so lovly, I'm working at a steam train museum here in germany and we drive standard gauge engines. Atm we only have one working engine, but it's a lovly one. And ofc we are allowed to whistle, we're actually required to do so per law XD

That’s a nice little steam locomotive

I like trains locomotive 🤩🤩

Great stuff again Lawrie. Pity about the whistle though. I really need to get on a footplate again, must be 10 years since I fired a Puffing Billy NA...

Wow your loco is good nice

I saw some classic/vintage lorry’s in the corners of the yard could you do a video on them lawrie great videos 👍🏻

I live in Port Townsend, WA USA, and it seems like all the great steam engines are over there!

Best video ever. Could you please make more narrow gauge steam engine reviews

That really is a handsome locomotive.

Lovely little loco Lawrie even though I must admit I prefer standard gauge but that is my personal preference, I would love to have a go in a Class 37 diesel!!!!!

That's the kind of loco i would happily roll onto a trailer and drive of with it! Ive seen some extremely tiny (i forget the gauge to be honest,it was tiny and under 2 foot im pretty sure) versions of these maybe 30% the size of this one in some pictures many moons ago, the one at the time was plinthed(i think some place in Tasmania, no not "Wee Georgie Wood" which is a smallish once plinthed now running loco over there ) but i believe ended up restored.Maybe one day (when fully tooled up, suitable place to do it and retired!) I will build something around this size,staring a bit smaller first though ;)

Dear little loco!

Great video lawrie. I was wondering , do you know about the great cockcrow railway? It's a 7.25 inch gauge rapresentation if a main line railway. It's situated near chertsy (in Surrey ) and we open to the public every Sunday from 13.00 to 16.30. The railway closes for maintenance work after Halloween and reopens in may. We mostly run live steam locomotive but we also have some diesels ( which are actually electric except the class 55 deltic which is powered by a petrol engine.) I'm a volunteer there so if you came to visit we'll might meet 😀

I volunteer at a museum railway in sweden and I work as a ticket collector or an extra conductor. At our railway we have four Orenstein och koppel (O&K) and I got to drive one of them wich was locomotive nr 10 Avesta 0,6,0..

Your very lucky to drive a steam locomotive and I haven't even seen one in real life

Honestly, I don't really call them "design flaws" I prefer to call them "features", because they don't really take away from the train, more so add to it! That's one of the reasons I like engines like Ming, because they have their own little quirks and features, and they just make Ming who she is.

remember girls:get a men who loves you the same ,as lawrie love it's loco's!

Ever thought about doing an lmm episode on river/narrow boats? Maybe you could organise something with channels like cursing the cut. They are quite interesting too.

Have you ever thought of looking at the 2ft 3inch gauge engines on the Corris Railway?

I saw this thumbnail and thought... I swear that’s tinkers Park! I live nearby and it’s such a nice collection there, you should do a video on the two ploughing engines they have there apparently they have a left hand and right hand engine and that’s extremely rare because when they were scrapping the engines they started on the line of right hand engines before they started being saved so there’s a load of left hand and hardly any right hand left and is rare to find a pair

Ooooh! Traction engine in the background. Could we have a look at that some time?

I've seen it on other O&K locos, the little holes either side on each cylinder. Not the drain cocks, but the hole where the steam comes out sideways on every chuff, wondered what it was for seeing as its wasting steam?

You could modify the brake wheel by adding a handle. . Kind of like a speed wrench

Duncan where did you get the extra wheel

it's so obvious you absolutely love your loco hobby. to be honest, i would too. i love machines, i always have. i've been working on them since i could hold a wrench. i get along better with them than most people. you always know where you stand with a mechanical contraption. people, not so much. for the most part, i still barely understand people. i can tell you what every part of an engine is, and does, but i haven't the foggiest notion why the average human does what they do, other than because. sorry, it's been a week of people driving me bonkers here.

This is awesome it is narrow gauge I assume I skipped to the part of you driving it because I really wanted to see it running

How much difficulty did they have locating those awful tampered stay bolts? And bugger the neighbors for complaining about the whistle. 😂

3:31 the best of the (south) West Country accent.

I missed this engine running at the last Tinkers Park Model Railway Plus in Aug 2020

The only thing missing is the whistle. I don't like the neighbors.

Perhaps you may like to come and try your hand at our 1879 built Beyer Peacock at the Foxfield Railway in Staffordshire sometime, specially when we have the North Staffordshire Railway 1880s built 4 wheel coaches out. Nigel

My museum has quite an interesting little narrow gauge locomotive. Ex-Defiance Coal Company N°1, a 1921 HK Porter 0-4-0 built to 40-inch narrow gauge, it originally ran on a line roughly 1½ miles from the DCC's two mines to the coal tipple, located in Mentmore, New Mexico. After the mine shut down, a doctor from upstate New York bought it and displayed it at the legendary Rail City, the first operating steam railway museum in the United States. After the doctor passed away, the engine traded hands again, and I believe it was then owned by Mr. Roy Dunwell, whom the engine is named after now. Mr. Dunwell restored the engine to operational condition, and built a special flatbed truck trailer with rollers, so the engine can be fired up and run. It now is owned by the Railroad Museum of Long Island, of which I am a member, and as of this year, it's back to operation once again. I'm officially part of the Steam Team, and as such, I get to operate the little engine when we fire it up. Here is a link of the little engine working: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prmCebN6mMmUpqc.html I do strongly suggest coming by and checking it out, it's a really nice loco.

I swear, steam locomotives have such large personalities that you would think they were alive!

Need storage for a cold one!!

Their are dockside diesels locomotives the small to large

WOW! At 18:22 i think i found some abandoned track AND a abandoned tunnel!😀

Those Orenstein&Koppel locomotives are quite common on 2ft/600 mm gauge all around the world. The works produced thousands of them from 10-70 HP size. Unfortunatly this one was quite a lot modified to British style features, that spoil the design a bit. The original lever hand brake is much better and faster to use, the new boiler has a different design with this strange long water gauge glasses and the kind of small aditional dome in the cab. Original fitted with 2 Strube suction injectors and swivel windows in the cab. The 2-step valve regulator seems to have some issue, maybe the stoke of the small relief valve is too big, so the main valve starts "jumping". The safety valves are not orginal, but from a ARN. JUNG built loco. Nevertheless it is a great video, well done Lawrie!

I've got a shunter engine myself. An upsized Hudswell Clarke Diesel Mechanical 0-8-8-0 Shunter, 26 cylinder with 0.7223 liter for each cylinder.

great video! lovely loco!

Lawrie have you been to kirkless railway they have some cracking engines

On the subject of 2ft gauge Is there any chance of a “Lawrie goes loco” on the Welsh Highland Railway NGG16 Garratts?

The escalators in the mall local to me are made by O&K

The neighbors don’t like the steam whistle!?😧 Who doesn’t like the sound of a steam whistle?

This loco looks like something from te statfold barn railway.

If I could have a 2 foot gauge steam engine then it would be one of those.

seems fun, wish the volume was louder

Have you been to the lappa valley railway in Cornwall? With engines from my childhood muffin and zebedee?

It would be SO COOL to live on 10 - 20 acres of land AWAY from everybody, and have a loco like this to run on my own track...👍👍

It would be a seriously narrow pit if it was over one! I'm guilty, I listened to you but was busy looking at the AEC buses in the background haha

Fun

Big iron somewhere wales

I feel like if this was my conductor on my train I would honestly feel like I'm in good hands

If you take the brake off on a gradient do you hear "Lift going down"

little teakettle locomotive

I was once driving an LKM engine when it had rained, i nearly crashed into an shed becouse i put handbrake on on an gradient and rails was wet

You need to come back and try the new brake lever. Just waiting for the steam test

How much torque does it make that’s the question

Why was it working in a mine in a digiorno?

Would it be st Dominic?

Might have to give this place a visit sometime! Want to review my Mamod when it's fixed? ;)

This Locomotive Saõ Domingos works here when I Live...she never dont place ...Essa LOcomotiva nunca devia ter saido daqui onde moro

in Sweden you would not need to oil the engine as a driver, that is the firemans job!

I thought all rail vehicles were required to have a working horn/whistle.

Do you need some kind of license to drive those locos or can you just do it like that on the private railways?

There should be a law about noise... Before you buy your house next to a railway, workshop, pub, school, airport. You should tick a box saying "yes I'm aware there is noise"... Rather than people moving in then complaining.

In spite of a few areas that I would like restored, it is a beautiful locomotive! She's fit for the Skarloey Railway on Sodor! Also, your fireman is named James! Just like a rather arrogant engine we all know!

1:48 As a expert on portuguese, I can say that you have pronunciated the word "Pejao" wrong. It's actually pronunciated as "Feijão". Nice video by the way!

In fact locomotives nr 10 Avesta looks rather like Sao domingos your driving here in this video exept Avesta does not have the modified cab and I think Avesta is a bit smaller.

6:10 trespassing people! There a engine that fired up! It could hit you!

SAO DOMINGO means HOLY SUNDAY

So Sao is a saint in short ,right?