The design for the 9667 locomotive is nearing completion, it’s just that I had to take a break from it to assess on the other complicated features that I have yet to start. I want the art to be as accurate to the real example as much as possible.

Be on the look out for future updates real soon!

I know that most of you all know and are expecting an update on what I’m doing on my part for the idea of creating merch to support and protest against the illegal destruction of 9667.

After much research and consideration, I’ve decided I’ll be opening a FourthWall store instead of a TeePub store.

As of 2024, E2 1123 still resides in the very same scrapyard in Nykroppa, Sweden to this very day.

Hopefully, like the Lost Engines of Roanoke beforehand, it will one day be rescued, given a new home, and new life it truly deserves.

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One Swedish resident said that the reason E2 1123 hasn’t been bought by a private owner or put into a museum, was because it was allegedly proposed to be put on display for a steam reserve monument in Kristinehamn that never materialised. No further info about it is anywhere.

If it were up to me, considering that in the state of Maine there’s also a train set from Sweden, but the steam engine for it, a Swedish B Class, was withdrawn and sent to an amusement park in Tennessee, I would buy those two engines and use them for an ambitious project that’s unlike any other.

There had been different proposals in order to better preserve them if the unlikely ideas of putting them back in service, or sending them back home to Sweden, are out of the question, but so-far nothing has happened, and whatever idea there is for them quickly falls apart.

- to inform them of what’s happened and provide the receipt of evidence needed in order to back up the claims of trespassers, and other potential possibilities that could happen if nothing is done to stop this on their part. The two locomotives need [serious] better protections.

The owners really need to ramp up their security measures, and stop people from getting in without expressed permission for a specific reason, or to prevent any criminal misdemeanours from ever occurring again on their property.

I can’t find a way to contact the current owners -

We don’t know if the owners of the former HCW’s right-of-way allowed this, or are even aware of trespassers capable of breaking into their private property. If what happened to the coaches was a possible tragedy, what’s to say that the same can repeat itself to the two engines?

No-matter if this is what urban explorers do, this can potentially open up a worse opportunity for anyone to break-and-enter into places they shouldn’t be in.

My biggest question is how this person managed to get into the engine shed in the first place undetected?

They claimed that it was the ghost of the scrapped deltic number 55020 called “Nimbus”.

Now, whether this is a true story, false for publicity attention, or if the identity was mistaken for another member of the Class 55s, we don’t know, but it’s worth adapting it into a story.

This is not talked a lot anymore, but back in September 1980 there was apparently a sighting of a ghost deltic diesel roaming British Rails near New Barnet, North of London near the Hadley Wood South Tunnel. Two railfans recounted the event and were witnesses to the sighting.