Mike 84C

I find it astonishing that none of those engines carried 500 gall's of water. But I suppose they never worked very hard or passed a water column when going somewhere!

Lovely work, be a little beauty when complete.

I love shots with loco crew, so often neglected the crews that ran the machine.

Very well done! you have concealed your starting point admirably. May I suggest new bogie wheels would help the looks or maybe that's in the plan! Next efisode please.

When I worked for BR the old brass pay check system was still in use. My number was 381 and later changed to 157, all stamped on an edged brass check with G.W.R at the top. Your money came in a small round tin with the lid stamped to accord with the pay check. Same system at Bescot except the check was oval and stamped L.N.W.R. This was in the early 1970's!

Hi Paul, like the J26 very inspiring! lovely work on the body how/what did you use for the chimney? Nearest I have found to a GSW/CIE style is a British GNR built up type. Pretty busy in Wales last w/e.

I do hope you have not lost the moulds and masters. If that has happened, disaster! Could you not retrieve the moulds? Surely we could get your last orders fulfilled? Then see how it goes?

Pm and Pictures sent. Mick.

I believe New Irish Lines Is now all digitised and is/was free to browse, I recall Alan sent out those drawings as photocopies , over several years , some of the copies were a bit iffy( mine were) and not all were scaled. If I'm wrong please please correct me , I think the problem was the distortion that photocopiers can cause. But a shout of thanks to Alan for producing the information.

Going from empty Lincolnshire where very few people live, to crowded then rammed in summer Devon, but its strange how the siren wail of newly baked grandchildren affects the ladies! And we had discussed would we move to Devon a few years ago, naah anywhere but! Just gotta man up. Happy wife happy life! Come on lads help a man out £450 +pp and you get all three.!!

Looks like the memsahib will drag me off to darkest Devon! Who knows when this will happen so I have to shift some stuff! 1 Bachmann passenger train Set. Complete with green k1 2-6-0, 3 Cie livery coaches, track and controller , DC 1 Bachmann k1 2-6-0 "Cherry Blossom" gloss black DCC & sound. Has a strong substitute stock box. 1 Bachmann/Murphy Models Cl 181 CIE Black/Orange cat no; MMO 182. Please pm me if you are interested, remember I live on the big island! And I can send pictures!

The set we had on Bantry had all the problems of wheels dropping out of the bogies, reproduction drive shafts on the bogies dropping off and the sides parted company from the floor on one of the coaches. Some of the parts are made of a type of plastic thats very hard to glue maybe its nylon? And they feel very flimsy. Rather disappointing. Would I buy another? only if the price was right.

I'm thinking about how the cement is extracted from the delivering rail vehicle into the recieving vehicle or silo. Cement is a similar type of product to flour and in the bottom of those tanks there was some type of plate which allowed the product and air under pressure to mix to facilitate delivery. I do not think suction would work difficult to regulate the flow. My only experience of delivering those type of products is animal feeds where a measured amount is dropped into the airflow and blown into a silo. It does need a fair amount of power to do this, its surprising how much power a Rootes blower absorbs.

I finished up painting my American coaches, which are often a shade of Tuscan, with a rattle can of Ford Damask Red and I think they look the db's.! Broithe, get yourself to the optician! Been there and done that.

I have been a member of an American group, for a lot of years!, having an interest in the Colorado Midland which closed after WW1. But we had on going discussions about colour from every aspect. My conclusion is we will all see the same colour slightly differently so my stock will be the right colour and yours well, the jury's out! In Back Track vol34 No2 For feb 2020 there is an article Irish Diesel traction by David Moseley worth having for the 6 colour photos. All green and yet more shades in the melting pot!