One Clayton More

For those of you too young to remember, Clayton Moore was the actor who portrayed the Lone Ranger on TV during the 1950s.

Well, we recently added one more Clayton to our fleet of locos, which means, of course, that D8568 Ribble Cement is now no longer the lone Class 17 to range far and wide across the Lakeland Railway, as can be seen in the photo below:

D8529 and D8568 at the head of a train of coal wagons

We also added sound to the new, blue, Class 17 but, unlike D8658, which has a Howes sound decoder, D8529 has been fitted with a YouChoos decoder and the sounds are quite different.

I don't know from where YouChoos obtained their sound files but I would say that it was probably not from the sole surviving member of the class - which just happens to be D8568.

Therefore I daresay we will be changing this sound file for Howes before too long!

A closer look at D8529, which has recently been weathered ...

... and here is her grey-liveried sister.

Here we see them on a return working with a train of small oil tankers.