Is it my imagination, or have they taken the buffers off it?
077256 wrote:One of the options would be to trace who originally purchased the loco and paint it in their colours.
All 5 were purchased brand new by the Steel Company of Wales for use at Port Talbot, so there wasn't an original American livery.
Sister #801 is now at the Nene Valley, and their page for that one has a builders photo of #804 in it's original maroon paint (rather smart, if not especially exciting)
http://www.irps-wl.org.uk/restoration-p ... jects/alco
#804 was also based at Railworld in Peterborough, but may have been recently scrapped...
They are a difficult "sell" to most UK preserved railways due to loading gauge issues, making them not particularly useable!