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The London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Hughes Crab or Horwich Mogul is a class of mixed traffic 2-6-0 steam locomotive built between 1926 and 1932. They are noted for their appearance with large highly-angled cylinders to accommodate a restricted loading gauge. These locomotives were referred to as "Crabs". Several authors have claimed that this refers to the resemblance to a crab's pincers of the outside cylinders and valve motion.[1][2][3] Another suggestion is that the nickname refers to the "scuttling" motion felt on the footplate when the engine is being worked hard,[2] due largely to the inclined cylinders, producing a sensation that it is walking along the track. In some areas they also received the nickname "frothblowers" from their tendency to prime easily when the boiler was overfilled, or the feedwater contaminated.[4]

The machine which helped crack the German Lorenz cypher in the war.

Happy Fence Friday!!

Complex Harmonic motion of a pair of equidistant objects!

Happy Fence Friday! The locomotive is 99 1772-5

The locomotive is an 0-4-4-0 , number 99-1568-7, on the 750mm gauge Jöhstadt railway. Unusually, the two power bogies are 'back to back' with their cylinders in the middle of the locomotive.