Top Gear season 14 went to the North Pole, and about 10 miles from it found this C-47

train built because none existed, strange use of disposable income...

It is the only example of a LNER Peppercorn Class A1 class locomotive in existence, the entirety of the original production batch having been scrapped without preservation.

 Actual construction of the Tornado began in 1994, being based at Darlington Works for most of the project, while numerous components such as the boiler were manufactured elsewhere.

The project was financed through fundraising initiatives such as public donations and sponsorship deals; further funding came from hiring Tornado itself on special services. Construction was completed in 2008, and full certification of the locomotive was achieved in January 2009. Having been designed with compliance to modern safety and certification standards, Tornado has been conducting passenger services on the UK rail network and on mainline-connected heritage railways since 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1_60163_Tornado

I learned about this when the goof balls on Top Gear season 13 raced this train, a motorcycle, and some car. Clark had to shovel a lot of coal

The US version of top gear, actually a good 3 minute snip that demonstrates Mopars are best, Fords worst, and old cars have lousy brakes compared to new cars

Top gear does another crazy stunt, putting and Audi and a Jaguar on train tracks

see the video on Car Domain, it's in the 3rd segment (on the right hand border you'll see a keypad of numbers 1-7) http://blog.cardomain.com/2011/07/18/watch-top-gear-season-17-episode-4-for-free-streaming-hq/



found the photos and info from Tamerlane's Thoughts http://karakullake.blogspot.com/2011/09/top-gear-audi-s8-train-versus-jaguar.html

Morris Minor hubcap guitar and Seasick Steve on Top Gear, cut to minute 5:50

Top Gear Season 14, episode 7

That video has been deleted, so I looked around, and found that he used a Hudson hub cap, spatula, garden hoe handle guitar on a British TV show http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13600391

And if you are impressed with his bit of music, you'll be blown away with what he can do with a one string diddley-bow. A 2x4 and and amp, that's it.