Mr. D and the torque converter - much more interesting then my vegetational butchery!

A day at the Rocks By Rail Museum where Mr. D has had his reconditioned torque converter fitted! Now to put things into context Mr. D is not someone like the muscular Mr. T from the A Team TV series but is a small 0-4-0 loco. A torque converter is a little like an automatic gearbox in a car, just that it has one gear. 

The clean grey looking part on the left of the photo is the torque converter which is fastened to the end of the engine. You can see inside through the inspection panel that still needs to be fitted.

The ever skillful John has had a major part in refitting this part. Here though he is searching for that inspection panel referenced in the photo above. It is about somewhere - someone put it in a safe place so that it would not get lost!

Missing inspection panel apart, it should not be too long before that 'Not to be moved' sign can be taken off and the loco moved under its own power.

Meanwhile back in the Restoration shed things on Ketton No1 have moved on with Thomas and Alex making great progress on the welding and body repaint.

An interesting artifact came to the Museum today in the form of this old plan of Stewarts and Lloyds Tube Works at Corby. It dates from 1967 and shows both the enormity of the site and the complexity of the site railway system. There are plans to copy and restore the copy to a pristine condition. 

So what was I up to? Well the usual vegetational butchery on hedges and grass! I cut back so much vegetation that I discovered there is a wire fence in the overgrowth!

The mower makes a great mulcher!

Looking more like a cultivated area then a wilderness!

Like the end of most of the past days I am shattered!