I think "agricultural" is exactly the right work to describe this little loco. It reminds me very much of the old Fergie 35 I used to drive at Normanby Hall near Scunthorpe. The original body was long gone and had been replaced with a plain piece of steel sheet folded over the top of the engine and a bit of chicken wire as a grill. The whole thing shook and rattled like she was coming apart and the steering would be generously described as vague. In spite of all that, she always started come blazing sunshine, pouring rain or a couple of feet of snow and got on with the job regardless.
Love it! To me this loco symbolises everything I like about narrow gauge - a slightly ramshackle, bodged appearance, but everything has a purpose. And I just love seeing it run on tracks barely visible in the undergrowth!
Videos like this not only show how important small industrial machines are, but also how interesting. Stuff like this just steadily getting on with its job in the background are so easy to ignore and yet nothing would get done without them. Fantastic to see it in preservation and with no plans to make it look like anything other than the hardworking industrial unit it is.
I absolutely adore engines like this. I was super into NA logging engines as a kid, so the fact that this little thing is preserved is, frankly, awesome.
There are some REALLY cool logging locos built over here. steam and diesel both (including diesels built on the frames of geared steam engines...yeah, let that one rattle around in your head).
I wondered when this video would come out as I was actually watching you recording this episode on the Sunday morning of the Apedale Railway gala. I had a good look at this loco and it did make me laugh how well constructed the shed....I mean cab was.
@@marvindebot3264 Just did there now. Quite incredible. What I had in mind for a dry dock was specifically the one where the Titanic was built in Belfast. Having been there on a school trip at one point I thought there's no way something that scale could possibly be built to float. Having said that, I have also watched a documentary on the super-yacht transport ship that submerges its deck to load the yachts, so had I thought about it it's not unreasonable to imagine dry docks can float too. :) Still no flying hangers though (I checked just to be sure) :)
@@markwright3161 There will never be another Harland and Wolff, those day days are gone. Foundered 1861 and still going but a near shadow of their former selves. The day Samson and Goliath went out of service was the day shipbuilding in the UK died for good. They out lasted the Clyde but not by much. Having said that, take a look at the size of some of those floating docks, they could hold the Titanic easily. #4 Royal Dock is 438 meters long and 86 wide, the Titanic was 269m and the largest H&W drydock is 335m completed in 1968. The dock in which the Titanic was built was the Hamilton Dock completed to her current size in 1904 which is 259 meters long and 40 wide.
I love that thing its perfect Lawrie and nobody can tell me otherwise. I once almost owned a very similar rail truck a year ago in 27” gauge. Although it started out life as a Ford model A turned bus with a shed on a Maryland Iron Bog railway with a Baltimore horse car wheel set. It was practically this thing but with thick walls filled with asbestos. Id run that little guy if i could but I don’t think I’d fit the door or I might bust a hole in the roof of that.
Excellent! I'm sure I've seen this loco on video before... There's an industrial NG website with dozens of home-produced DVDs of peat railways, quarries, clayworks, waterworks, chemical works, feldbahn [forestry trains]... and I distinctly remember this loco-shed thumping around a tight curve, through nettles almost as high as the roof, and into a receiving / conveyor shed with a train of side-tipping wagons.
I work on industrial diesel generators. No one builds an engine like Lister. When I get a hold of one I either keep it or one of my friends gets it. The only thing close is the Onan J series. Lister made ome really good engines! Best wishes from the Sunshine State!
You really should get in contact with the Moors Valley Railway (near Bournemouth), it's small gauge but you'd love driving their engines (having done so myself).
A thought! You could make a couple of passenger carriages in the same style. Holes in the side for viewing the countryside. You could run Santa specials by having staff running along the side of the train and passing plates for each course through slots cut in the side. When each course is finished the crockery and cutlery can be posted through slots in the other side to fall into sacks nailed on for collection. Wine glass shaped cutouts could be used for serving mulled wine and smaller ones for mince pies. I would buy a ticket for a meal on it.
I really liked the video, and enjoyed all the comments that you came with while you drove the shed. 🤣 Mainly because you couldn’t bee heard over the motor.
Apedale Railway seems like a railway where members/volunteers can just go and have a play with a locomotive. Does seem to have that atmosphere. Not that thats a bad thing, but rather than heritage railways where they try to make a business based on passenger numbers, this seems similar to a miniature railway club. its pleasent.
because of the noise, and how hard it was to hear what you were saying at times, I put subtitles on... oh my word the auto subtitles had NO IDEA what you were saying some of the time. XD.
To be honest you could fit any engine of similar size to this chassis and it would still work, such a versatile frame to work with, suitable for any light railway
It's a lovely little thing and an excellent find...Now Lawrie stop thinking about trying to buy it for your collection, you won't have anywhere to put it...
LOOKS at this and immediately heads for the Briggs and Stratton web site and plans a 7 and a 1/4 inch version, Yes they do them in this size and they are mad sitting sideways of course. Just trying to weather some ply to match the superior carpentry, That window is superb. Same age as ME!! David and Lily.
This is my kind of engine. Here in the US I’d like to do a build, but would like to get an old engine chassis that’s 7.5” gauge to put my own engine, & cab on because I don’t have the tools to make an entire engine.
It looks like the kennel I built out of an ancient kitchen table and some recycled marine plywood for my long lost lovely labrador Anna. And yes it is TOTALLY appropriate for LMM. Makes me think (again) that Dumpty would be great with a set of flanged wheels...
Lawrie if you are not aware of that I want to warn you that LOCO stands for crazy or mad or out of ones mind in spanish... thats a really mad crazy loco locomotive!. Awesome little mechanic marvel.
cracking video Lawrie really need to catch up on the podcasts though also the little amount of work they did to it is a testament to the quality of lister locomotives
If Lawrie ever runs out of trains to cover: Come to the Netherlands! It's right across the sea, and we have it all: A Biiiig National Railway museum, narrow gauge steam railways, a nice and lovely trammuseum, multiple industrial railway museum and even an international railway powered by steam, it wil take you a bit into Germany and the steam loco is absolutly stunning. It's called "De Miljoenenlijn". Oh and: Once every 4 years one of our cities litterally turns into a city of steam, trains, ships, motors, everything steam, old and bonkers! "Dordt in Stoom" it's called, in case you want to give it a search. The Netherlands is my homecountry, and i love trains but even i haven't been able to see it all!
At least you don't have to worry about rust in the body panels. Nice job on all the varied camera angles, so we can pick up the less obvious details like that bent bolt below a wheel bearing, and the end of the exhaust tip being rusted out.
yes this outfit has got your number. We just got this crazy bit of industrial kit, who should we call to show it off? Well there is this chap, Lawrie. He is Loco enough to love it properly. Oh make certain it is running. Otherwise he may nip it off to his Shed, never to be seen again. Beside it makes his Loco look like the Flying Scotsman. God bless you Sir!
Lawrie , thanks for sharing the video. Lovely bit of kit there . Learned something about " peat railways " that I didn't know . Interesting wagons for hauling peat, peat must not weight very much based on the light construction of the cars. Definitely need to use the subtitles function on this video. Ha Ha. I want to see you run a Quarry Hunslet at some point for a video.
Form follows function to the extreme. You almost need a sign that says you must be smaller than this height and width to drive this engine. Bonkers, yes. Fun, for the first several hours at least. They used what they had and made it work which is a testament to the crew that put it together. They probably had a week of down time for.design and build I wonder what the prior "sheds" looked like on this engine and when the first was added? I don't think that ply is not from 1959. I could see the springs working but wonder how much set they have taken over the 62 or so years maybe that has something to do with the ride quality? Does not matter as the short wheel base guarantees it will pitch up and down. Love all the expedients like the sanding hole and the cute horn which reminds me of the horn I added to my '48 school bus. I can see why you like it as it does seem to epitomize your mechanical marvels.
There wierd & wacky but they look fun too drive but I bet you hurt like heck when you were going over the joint . Those little lister engines must of been the life blood of lots of places . You need one for your collection .of what you going to break next
It'd be great if he would come up and visit my local line once all this is over. The strathspey has some pretty good locos as well as 2 Ruston and hornsby 44.
That reminds me of this old Y class Steam Locomotive from Australia: www.australiansteam.com/Y109.htm It was sold to a plaster mill and was converted to diesel-mechanical by removing the boiler and replacing it with an engine and gearbox. The cabin is basically a garden shed on wheels, like this smaller train and it's 100% unique with no others like it.
Big Like for this despite i don't have an idea what is that thing and why anybody would use it, i feel like i'm drunk after this video :-) by the way, i don't know what should i say about that horn.
Imagine being a crossing guard on a late shift round 4-6 in the afternoon your making sure the crossing is clear when you hear the rumble of a little Diesel engine so you go to close the crossing so the engine may cross when up line comes a shed on wheels trundaling along with a small train behind it
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Takes a whole new meaning for going down to the shed to start the engine!
😂😂
The narrow gauge version of the class 66 'Shed' 😂
That "shed" looks so sad and depressed.
Looks exactly like my shed
It's certainly a Shed 😂
That's pretty much all the similarities
The class 66 "shed" should not be confused with the class 99 "hut" which is 3/10ths % larger....
@@EC-ms1jr A nice coat of paint would improve it greatly.
I think "agricultural" is exactly the right work to describe this little loco. It reminds me very much of the old Fergie 35 I used to drive at Normanby Hall near Scunthorpe. The original body was long gone and had been replaced with a plain piece of steel sheet folded over the top of the engine and a bit of chicken wire as a grill. The whole thing shook and rattled like she was coming apart and the steering would be generously described as vague. In spite of all that, she always started come blazing sunshine, pouring rain or a couple of feet of snow and got on with the job regardless.
Love it! To me this loco symbolises everything I like about narrow gauge - a slightly ramshackle, bodged appearance, but everything has a purpose. And I just love seeing it run on tracks barely visible in the undergrowth!
To me thats what NG is meant to be, but then again I came up on North American steam and narrow gauge so that's almost a given for us.
Videos like this not only show how important small industrial machines are, but also how interesting. Stuff like this just steadily getting on with its job in the background are so easy to ignore and yet nothing would get done without them. Fantastic to see it in preservation and with no plans to make it look like anything other than the hardworking industrial unit it is.
I absolutely adore engines like this. I was super into NA logging engines as a kid, so the fact that this little thing is preserved is, frankly, awesome.
There are some REALLY cool logging locos built over here. steam and diesel both (including diesels built on the frames of geared steam engines...yeah, let that one rattle around in your head).
Brings an entire new meaning to "just going to potter about in the shed"!
I wondered when this video would come out as I was actually watching you recording this episode on the Sunday morning of the Apedale Railway gala. I had a good look at this loco and it did make me laugh how well constructed the shed....I mean cab was.
There's a loco I could happily work 50+ hours a week on and never get bored.
That little engine has so much character it's unreal.
Your statement about the sound should get an award as understatement of the millennium!
Having been in that thing, it sounds like a bomb going off inside your head. It's amazing that you could hear anything!
I've seen a shed that can go on the road now a shed that can go on rails
Now we just need an aircraft hander that can fly and a dry dock that can float :)
@@markwright3161 HI STOP PRESS there are now sheds on Boats on the river Thames.
@@markwright3161 Plenty of dry docks already float, google "floating drydock".
@@marvindebot3264 Just did there now. Quite incredible.
What I had in mind for a dry dock was specifically the one where the Titanic was built in Belfast. Having been there on a school trip at one point I thought there's no way something that scale could possibly be built to float. Having said that, I have also watched a documentary on the super-yacht transport ship that submerges its deck to load the yachts, so had I thought about it it's not unreasonable to imagine dry docks can float too. :)
Still no flying hangers though (I checked just to be sure) :)
@@markwright3161 There will never be another Harland and Wolff, those day days are gone. Foundered 1861 and still going but a near shadow of their former selves. The day Samson and Goliath went out of service was the day shipbuilding in the UK died for good. They out lasted the Clyde but not by much.
Having said that, take a look at the size of some of those floating docks, they could hold the Titanic easily. #4 Royal Dock is 438 meters long and 86 wide, the Titanic was 269m and the largest H&W drydock is 335m completed in 1968.
The dock in which the Titanic was built was the Hamilton Dock completed to her current size in 1904 which is 259 meters long and 40 wide.
This has GOT to be the most bonkers and absolutely my favorite, non-steam locomotive you have ever showcased on this marvelously bonkers channel.
I love that thing its perfect Lawrie and nobody can tell me otherwise.
I once almost owned a very similar rail truck a year ago in 27” gauge. Although it started out life as a Ford model A turned bus with a shed on a Maryland Iron Bog railway with a Baltimore horse car wheel set. It was practically this thing but with thick walls filled with asbestos. Id run that little guy if i could but I don’t think I’d fit the door or I might bust a hole in the roof of that.
Excellent! I'm sure I've seen this loco on video before... There's an industrial NG website with dozens of home-produced DVDs of peat railways, quarries, clayworks, waterworks, chemical works, feldbahn [forestry trains]... and I distinctly remember this loco-shed thumping around a tight curve, through nettles almost as high as the roof, and into a receiving / conveyor shed with a train of side-tipping wagons.
I took it for a WWI simplex to be honest!!! It's both astonishing and amusing!!! Tiny little thing moving on the rails...!!!
This is simply , a shed on wheels.
That drives, and is rather useful
I work on industrial diesel generators. No one builds an engine like Lister. When I get a hold of one I either keep it or one of my friends gets it. The only thing close is the Onan J series. Lister made ome really good engines! Best wishes from the Sunshine State!
It's a good little bestie all round!
it has better panel spacing than half of the stuff in the LMM shed I think
I love this kind of 'engineering'. Functional and honest.
Just about functional 😂
Now that's a vehicle with character! I had to laugh at the diesel 'dipstick'.
You really should get in contact with the Moors Valley Railway (near Bournemouth), it's small gauge but you'd love driving their engines (having done so myself).
A thought! You could make a couple of passenger carriages in the same style. Holes in the side for viewing the countryside. You could run Santa specials by having staff running along the side of the train and passing plates for each course through slots cut in the side. When each course is finished the crockery and cutlery can be posted through slots in the other side to fall into sacks nailed on for collection. Wine glass shaped cutouts could be used for serving mulled wine and smaller ones for mince pies. I would buy a ticket for a meal on it.
That would be awesome 😂
This reminds me of the "speeders" that track maintenance crews use here in the US.
And in the UK and just about everywhere but they don't have the tractive effort of these, a speeder being a lot lighter.
Never has the phrase "what a shed!" been more appropriate
Words can't express how happy I am to see you blowing up the way you are.
Takes the term "Shed driver" to a new level.
"Captures the LMM spirit" yep lol
I really liked the video, and enjoyed all the comments that you came with while you drove the shed. 🤣 Mainly because you couldn’t bee heard over the motor.
I barely understood a word of what you said in the cab, but what a glorious bodgeof an engine!
Brilliant. I love modelling these type of weird pieces of narrow gauge rolling stock. And they say necessity is the mother of invention
Oh very much so
Apedale Railway seems like a railway where members/volunteers can just go and have a play with a locomotive. Does seem to have that atmosphere. Not that thats a bad thing, but rather than heritage railways where they try to make a business based on passenger numbers, this seems similar to a miniature railway club. its pleasent.
because of the noise, and how hard it was to hear what you were saying at times, I put subtitles on... oh my word the auto subtitles had NO IDEA what you were saying some of the time. XD.
0:20 lawries very funny confused face. Love the videos keep em coming can't wait to see more of jupes on the coming months
Well, that is an original vehicle to say the least
To be honest you could fit any engine of similar size to this chassis and it would still work, such a versatile frame to work with, suitable for any light railway
This episode is making me want to build a 009 gauge model peat railway 😃
Lawrie is the doug demuro of locomotives.. keep up the good work lawrie❤
What a great track inspection tool
It's a lovely little thing and an excellent find...Now Lawrie stop thinking about trying to buy it for your collection, you won't have anywhere to put it...
This has to be one of my favorite diesels I've seen on your channel I don't know why but I just love it
LOOKS at this and immediately heads for the Briggs and Stratton web site and plans a 7 and a 1/4 inch version,
Yes they do them in this size and they are mad sitting sideways of course.
Just trying to weather some ply to match the superior carpentry,
That window is superb. Same age as ME!! David and Lily.
Wow! What an amazing find. The collection in its in (forgetting the name, someone please tell me) is such a unique one!
This is my kind of engine.
Here in the US I’d like to do a build, but would like to get an old engine chassis that’s 7.5” gauge to put my own engine, & cab on because I don’t have the tools to make an entire engine.
It looks like the kennel I built out of an ancient kitchen table and some recycled marine plywood for my long lost lovely labrador Anna.
And yes it is TOTALLY appropriate for LMM.
Makes me think (again) that Dumpty would be great with a set of flanged wheels...
Lawrie if you are not aware of that I want to warn you that LOCO stands for crazy or mad or out of ones mind in spanish... thats a really mad crazy loco locomotive!. Awesome little mechanic marvel.
I love these videos and I accually started binge watching them last week
I think it looks wonderful! No matter how decrepit it looks!
cracking video Lawrie really need to catch up on the podcasts though also the little amount of work they did to it is a testament to the quality of lister locomotives
I am in love with this machine. It's incredible.
Isn't it just!
It's a little scruffy looking but all it needs is a few tweaks a bit of welding and a lick of paint and it's good as new apart from that I love it
If Lawrie ever runs out of trains to cover: Come to the Netherlands! It's right across the sea, and we have it all: A Biiiig National Railway museum, narrow gauge steam railways, a nice and lovely trammuseum, multiple industrial railway museum and even an international railway powered by steam, it wil take you a bit into Germany and the steam loco is absolutly stunning. It's called "De Miljoenenlijn".
Oh and: Once every 4 years one of our cities litterally turns into a city of steam, trains, ships, motors, everything steam, old and bonkers! "Dordt in Stoom" it's called, in case you want to give it a search.
The Netherlands is my homecountry, and i love trains but even i haven't been able to see it all!
It is on my agenda to come visit!
The big festival sounds amazing
At least you don't have to worry about rust in the body panels.
Nice job on all the varied camera angles, so we can pick up the less obvious details like that bent bolt below a wheel bearing, and the end of the exhaust tip being rusted out.
yes this outfit has got your number. We just got this crazy bit of industrial kit, who should we call to show it off? Well there is this chap, Lawrie. He is Loco enough to love it properly. Oh make certain it is running. Otherwise he may nip it off to his Shed, never to be seen again. Beside it makes his Loco look like the Flying Scotsman. God bless you Sir!
Yep, they know me!
@@lmm I hope she gets a kittle extra care. Perhaps a better Grade of Plywood? God bless her!!!
On a rainy cold day I am sure you would love that cab.😂
I'd like to have seen you hand start it! Shame we couldn't really hear what you were saying in the cab. Nice sound to it.
Was on my computer when I got the discord notification about this video. Finally
This looks like a post-apocalyptic tram engine.
toby had survived the zombie apocalypse but at what cost
@@warrior3456_ wtf lol
I almost see this as a new resident of the shed.
Ok so im following this channel a lot like on ''Lawrie goes loco'' I watch almost everyday. And this narrow guage shed engine is on another level xD
When you expect a Quarry Hunslet and you get a shed
Awesome! 🚂
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏼
Lawrie , thanks for sharing the video. Lovely bit of kit there . Learned something about " peat railways " that I didn't know . Interesting wagons for hauling peat, peat must not weight very much based on the light construction of the cars. Definitely need to use the subtitles function on this video. Ha Ha. I want to see you run a Quarry Hunslet at some point for a video.
It's very mossy!
I'd love to do a quarry Hunslet!
In Australia we had little sugar cane trains and in some places they are still used to move sugar cane from fields to the mill
It would be nice if lawrie did a lawrie goes lock on a British rail class 483 on the Epping and ongar railway or the Isle of Wight steam railway.
Huh, looks like a lot of the track survived at its old home!
Form follows function to the extreme. You almost need a sign that says you must be smaller than this height and width to drive this engine. Bonkers, yes. Fun, for the first several hours at least. They used what they had and made it work which is a testament to the crew that put it together. They probably had a week of down time for.design and build I wonder what the prior "sheds" looked like on this engine and when the first was added? I don't think that ply is not from 1959. I could see the springs working but wonder how much set they have taken over the 62 or so years maybe that has something to do with the ride quality? Does not matter as the short wheel base guarantees it will pitch up and down. Love all the expedients like the sanding hole and the cute horn which reminds me of the horn I added to my '48 school bus. I can see why you like it as it does seem to epitomize your mechanical marvels.
It's pretty terrible, but really good example of how things in industry were treated!
@@lmm And how people were treated!
It’s a custom job! Definitely a Shed 5000 😆
33:50 ahhh...look at the majestic steam loco, wait...is that a garden shed passing by?
It’s Toby lol it reminds me of duke the lost engine
I swear, someday Im going to scratch build this thing.
I love the horn!
That face XD someone must have really liked Toby from The Railway series XD
shed of a locomotive - an experimental Lister Railtruck. Lawrie Goes Loco Episode love louis shirley
I’ve rattled about on a few of those wee listers on the peat railways of Thorne moors.
No tie today?! It’s the garden shed for you!
It sounds wonderful :D
Jerry! I'm going to call it Jerry! To my understanding it's short for Jerry built!
Oh I like that, it made me chuckle.
I'd say 'Jerry Rigged'
There wierd & wacky but they look fun too drive but I bet you hurt like heck when you were going over the joint .
Those little lister engines must of been the life blood of lots of places . You need one for your collection .of what you going to break next
it looks like something you'd see on
George Clarke's Amazing Spaces.
Wonderful Loco!
Isn't it just
Its not ugly, its experimental
The shack on the track
Should have named the video that!
British engineering at it's best :-)
It'd be great if he would come up and visit my local line once all this is over. The strathspey has some pretty good locos as well as 2 Ruston and hornsby 44.
I'd love to do it
Are you ever going to do a collab with Geoff marshal?
Crikey, I hope not. He's a major bell-end.
@@paulosborne6517 Agreed the blokes a tosser.
That reminds me of this old Y class Steam Locomotive from Australia: www.australiansteam.com/Y109.htm
It was sold to a plaster mill and was converted to diesel-mechanical by removing the boiler and replacing it with an engine and gearbox. The cabin is basically a garden shed on wheels, like this smaller train and it's 100% unique with no others like it.
Put a mower engine in it and it looks like something I’d make in the garage, LOL
Big Like for this despite i don't have an idea what is that thing and why anybody would use it, i feel like i'm drunk after this video :-) by the way, i don't know what should i say about that horn.
Love it !!
Thank you
Please add subtitles for the parts inside the cab, it's hard to hear the commentary over the engine
Wait Lawrie dose planes now?! Are we gonna see Lawrie goes flying? If so please do the BF109 that or the Spitfire because it’s Spitfire
You should cross the Irish sea at some point and have a look at the BnM locos we've got over here. (They're all numbered LM xxx)
I'd love to!
Shed on wheels? I've owned a few! :-O
Its a close call, but I'd rather have a Lister Storm.
It's a literal shed with an engine on a railroad
Looks like a brake van with a Lister engine
British Engineering at its finest 🤣
where is the face now?
Imagine being a crossing guard on a late shift round 4-6 in the afternoon your making sure the crossing is clear when you hear the rumble of a little Diesel engine so you go to close the crossing so the engine may cross when up line comes a shed on wheels trundaling along with a small train behind it
Certainly seeing it go past for the first time you'd be quite confused.
I had to look up what a Peat was.