Ouch, ten year ticket expired.......thats going to cost some serious wedge to sort!
Plus its not a UK loco, its europeon so a different loading gauge.
I would much prefer this one which is for sale:
If you need to have a kettle you want to have a proper one!
But, yes, a 'U-boot' would fit the bill for me!
I thought you would jump on that fact, as I would MarksDTM.
As has been said many many times in the steam railway engine preservation field, the original purchase price is just first payment into the "Club" membership fee of owning one of those lovely beasts. Then you have all the expense from there on in - £20,000 there, a further £100,000 here, and if a big engine like a pacific, which I remember once in the 1960s being described as being "uneconomic and impossible to restore", anything up to £250,000 every so often - like the 10 year full strip down overhaul! You need your engine on a preservation line with full overhaul facilities, and the links to those who can work on them and provide boiler services in particular for a full 10 year boiler certificate and the all important insurance "ticket". Money, money money, and more money!
You think our cars can be a money pit; get a steam locomotive for "only" £36,000 and you will find out what a money pit really is
...........and 9F 92203
Black Prince..........bought by David Sheppard, the famous artist, direct from British Rail for £3,000 in 1967. I wonder how much David Sheppard paid out after that?
As a point of interest,
Black Prince set a record in 2008 by pulling a 1,000 tonne ballast train.
In fact I have just found this on Youtube - have fun!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9NcNmaNjQthen coupled to S160 5197
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=pUPZZLB1di8&NR=1 
But, I know coming back to the subject of this thread; despite him fancying the 9F MarksDTM would rather only accept a diesel as a gift. A
Deltic perhaps??
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