009 Cracker loco for TU-9a

The first locomotive of Genevieve & co. locomotive works, built as a passion project by Genivieve Shewsby. Bug as they would be known was made in 1900 from the boiler of a 2' 1.25" gauge Peckett 0-4-0st purchased from the bankrupt Sunstone and Bramley mineral railway, the wheels and buffer beams from a wagon (although regauged to 2' gauge) on the line with custom strengthened frames built to take the weight of the boiler, and a cylinder from a portable engine. The boiler and cylinder didn't last long as they were both beginning to wear out at the time of purchase. Thus after the original Genevieve & co. Locomotive works opened on Genivieve Shewsby's estate and she began to tinker away with rebuilding Bug. She gave Bug a new boiler built to her own design and a new cylinder built to work vertically. The new blueprints were added to Genivieve & co.'s catalogue of engines. Seventeen more "Cracker locomotives" as they would be known were built. The first of the scratch-built crackers where works numbers 98, 99, and 100 all being built in 1907. 98 and 99 were made for the Shipmann Breweries’ tramway system in Dobrookpool; the two engines were named Flea and Hops. No. 100 was named Ant and worked on the Bryn Bach Light Railway as a permanent way engine and works shunter. Sadly it only lasted two years on the line before being sold off to a pete railway in Ad's Castle wales due to her small size.
Today three locomotives are known to have survived. works no. 1 Bug was used on Genivie Shewsby's estate railway before being planted at the entrance to her estate. In 1967 she was purchased for preservation at The Bryn Bach Steam Railway. Bug is used for special trains and maintenance work. For brief periods in the 1980s and the 2000s Bug was painted to masquerade as her fallen classmate Ant. The class was one of Genivieve & co.'s export locomotives, Three ended up in Australia all working as shunting locomotives on cane railways. And two ended up in Ireland. At least one survives in Australia. Works no. 217 being planted in the town center of Macbal Hill in Far North Queensland. And works no. 219 is undergoing an overhaul in Ireland at the Foyle Valley Railway Museum. A forth engine may have survived however... Works No. 433 worked In the Port Arroo Sugar Cane Mill in Northern NSW until circa 1950. Afterwards she was sold on to a Mr. Ben Silver. He plinthed the engine and two cane wagons outdoors in the field behind his home. Eventually the decaying locomotive was sold on to a local tip. There are no records of it being scrapped or sold off, in fact some of the workers had grown attached to the little engine and had began saving up to save her. She disappeared off the face of the Earth within about 6 months and hasn't been seen since.

sorry for how long that was.