| Year | 1998 |
| Date | 14-Aug |
| Volume | 181 |
| Issue | 4,074 |
| Page | 216 |
| Category | Locomotive |
| Part | 4 |
| Title | Hindsight (Locomotive building) |
| Author | Tom Garner (South Africa) |
| Notes | What he would like to have known when he started locomotive building. Slide valve, exhausting spent steam, steam admission, balanced slide valves |