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4-8-4T 'Finsbury Tank' (Unbuilt)
   
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4-8-4T 'Finsbury Tank' (Unbuilt)

Description
'The tank engine of A.D. 1910', as conceived by Mr. C. F. Cleaver, of the Finsbury Technical Institute

This BEHEMOTH is a prospective 4-8-4T tank locomotive designed by C. F. Cleaver at the Finsbury Technical Institute.

This drawing was included in a 1905 issue of Railway Magazine, and has fascinated me for years.

I think it's time it was finally built, 116 years later.

The text in the article of the magazine is talking about suburban tanks. This design is a continuation of the large tank engines in the suburban area from the likes of the LB&SCR, Metropolitan and G&SWR.

They also talk about the 'inevitable increase of suburban freight'. Thinking face.

Whats in the mod
An absolute unit of a tank engine in 6 different liveries, depicting it as if the design were purchased by the GCR and L&YR. LMS, LNER and BR versions also exist.

This engine was never built so stats were pulled out of my ass but I think they will be nicely balanced.

No colouring on this model, I spent too much time texturing all these variants for someone to just be all like 'lol yellow'

Rust tho.
12 Comments
FunGaming44 6 Mar, 2023 @ 5:38pm 
It's missing its driver in these
Norfolk_Chris 16 Jul, 2021 @ 3:01am 
As these are 'fictional' locos it would be nice to be able to recolour them!
DPT Wanderer 27 Apr, 2021 @ 3:58pm 
quite effective for pulling suburban (and stopping and/or branch) passenger services (AU Paper) Newspaper in 1907: "the Finsbury tank locomotive which was recently built by the Finsbury technical institute and trialed on the GCR has proven to be a success with some now being ordered by the L&YR for use on its suburban passenger services we can expect these engines to soon populate other railways that have heavy suburban passenger services)
Rick Locker 12 Apr, 2021 @ 5:44pm 
I love these unbuilt and fictional engines.
Pizzaguy 9 Apr, 2021 @ 7:03pm 
tender locomotives are overrated - C. F. Cleaver
Quince99 3 Apr, 2021 @ 4:53am 
I'm with sheep21 on this - superb work and looks an imposing sight pulling into a station.
Bow-Tied Engineer 2 Apr, 2021 @ 7:31pm 
speaking of stat's, what are they?
DawnLine 1 Apr, 2021 @ 2:29pm 
EXTRA THICC, Also well done on the model looks great. Also I have a question you orginally said you were going to stop modeling, what made you change your mind?
A Guy Called Pi 1 Apr, 2021 @ 12:09pm 
New technology from the near future! Makes you think what kind of crazy ideas they must've had for 1920 or beyond
KiddBoston 1 Apr, 2021 @ 8:12am 
Its cool Ill just use the black livery and have them pull yellow painted american boxcars don't worry ;) great work!!