Talk:The Dark Green Tank Engine

Potential Basis for the Dark Green Tank Engine
I’ve been searching around for a potential prototype for this engine, and may have found a potential candidate that may be worth noting.

The engine appears to be an inside cylinder 0-6-0ST from what we see in the illustration, with a smokebox shape similar to Percy. Hoever, I’ve had to single out any Avonside engines as a potential basis as all their 0-6-0’s were built outside-cylinders.

The GWR 1331 saddle-tank locomotive appears to be a “dead ringer” for his basis, for it was an inside-cylinder 0-6-0ST with a smokebox pattern nearly identical to that of Avonside practice added on courtesy of Swindon.

http://www.railuk.info/steam/getsteamclass.php?item=1331

So could this be added on the Wikia if you, the admins, see fit to?