Pint Sized Big Boy

It’s Tuesday morning at the colliery. And yet again the management are trying out new forms of motive power for the 2ft 3 inch narrow gauge part of the colliery. 

The builders based the design on a shrunk down ‘Big Boy’ 4-6-8-4-9-2-6-8-4-10-4-5-7-0-12 wheel arrangement locomotive from that there USA. But in their error forgot about allowing space for the loco crew which means that only hobbits are able drive and fire the locomotive. And small children of course. Whilst children are plentiful, they’re already employed underground at the coal face, and the few hobbits are gainfully employed hand scribing slate pages for the Model Railway Journal somewhere in deepest Wales. 

Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse chuckles (or what ever horses do) - ‘they keep trying to replace me, and even if they find a locomotive crew, there’s no way that thing will be able to get around the tight curves on the line’. He’s such a clever horse, management should take more notice of Hubert, but alas very few, if any can speak or understand Latin - his thoughts above being translated for you my loyal readers. 

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