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A great "might of been" was the early 1900s proposal of Blacksod Bay as a terminus for Trans-Atlantic liner traffic as part of the "All Red Route" (all British) mail route between the United Kingdom and Canada and ultimately the Far East & Australia using Canadian Pacific railway and steam ship services. Proposals included setting up a new steam-ship company/line to operate between the United Kingdom & Canada and lines linking the Blacksod Bay terminus with the Irish Railway system and apparrently a proposal for a rail ferry between Holyhead and Dublin for trans-Atlantic passengers. https://www.archiseek.com/1915-railway-terminus-blacksod-bay-co-mayo/ Interestingly the Archiseek article writes about Blacksod ousting Liverpool as the departure point for British passenger traffic, but for Scandanavia too! My late father in law's family emigrated from Norway to farm in the US Mid-West during the 1880s, perhaps the British realised that it needed hardy Scandanavians to settle/farm its grain growing provinces. There seems to have been attempts to revive the proposal during the 1920s including re-gauging the C&L as part of a route linking Greenore and Blacksod, the proposal overtaken by World events (WW1 & events in Ireland) and developments in technology (faster ships & aeroplanes! Potentially interesting model if built and Liners continued to call into the 1950s, sleepy "Minories" terminus with sparce local passenger & goods traffic, possibly once-twice weekly boat trains in connection with Trans-Atlantic sailings. -
It will be the "EMD engine". It'll be modeled towards the tail end of service so it'll be looking quite worn out too. The grilles are more to create a little uniqueness. Thank you for the reference pictures. Chris
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Which engine variant are you building? In most cases I think that location would have a louvre panel rather than a grille. Crossley (pic from Ernie): Maybach (pic from Ernie): EMD (pic from Jonathan Allen): -
I have done one, still not finished and another not started. Good luck. -
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