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Those look REALLY good!

Brilliant as always - I like that use of an old six-wheel passenger brake.

A39 has charge of the Inchicore breakdown train-the crew have been looped at Tara junction and will take their PNB here.

Likewise down here en Canarias, unlikely that I’m sharing an ISP with many forum nembers, the forum has been dog-slow this week, so slow at times that it’s almost frozen.

Now THATS a rare one! I had no idea they’d ever been north of Drogheda!

We recently took delivery of some new 3D badges, which are now available on our online shop. These are based on the celtic-style roundels seen on the GSR 800 class loco nameplates. I'm a big fan of these since they look good to both railway and non-railway people!

Excellent! I really like that last photo. A real sense of being in the landscape, standing lineside.

I’ve been working on the trees. Finally got all the foliage on the sea moss trees and it was time for a trial fit. Firstly with just the sea moss trees (and the painted ones on the backscene). There are two larger ones in the foreground and 5 smaller ones in the corner: Then adding the two larger Primo trees I bought: They’re pretty good at concealing the hole in the backscene that the trains come through: But if you crouch down a bit you could still see the trains: I may add some more undergrowth to help hide the hole in the sky from this angle. There’s already a tendril of ivy on the tree trunk, ready to spread…

OK so, seems to have reverted to normal speed....for now.

Any sign yet?

A few more:

The two different types of end lagging.

Few from Ferns today. Thank you to the Council lads who were very accommodating.

My connection on the laptop kept asking me to reload, last night. Did my head in. It's fine tonight though Christ! Just as I went to upload that comment, the thing stalled again

Why would they drag it on themselves if the low IQ are carrying on like that I expect the lad will get a string of abuse. Just shows the standards that people uphold themselves to these days. Give me the car anyday. Went from Birmingham to Telford the other week, Bought tickets, Conductor came on, checked ours, all ok. Asked this other passenger from another continent for a ticket and my god the Conductor could not get through to the dude and eventually walked off with no ticket produced. Next time I will do the same.

Yes, I’m interested in this as I’m about to make a 1700 gallon tender in original form. These shots are most useful thanks!

They appear to be in accordance with the diagrams in the GNR wagon diagram book. See also an earlier post: https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/19592-cie-tar-bitumen-tanks-–-the-1950s60s-wagons/#findComment-273196 I have to say they are begging to be modelled! It would be an entirely scratch-built job as there is no suitable tender kit to use as a starting point.

90% of the time, it's normal for me, but it occasionally almost stops - just over the last few days. I can detect no obvious pattern to the "slow times".

Most interesting. Remains of a 1700 gallon tender being put to good use!

On the 16.50 to Belfast Fine until Newry when a group of young people boarded with their Xmas carry out. Now we are listening to loud music and watching most of them vape 2 Merry Xmas NOT Staff walked past and said nothing!

I expect they haven't got time to wait for the site to load! It does seem to be having a good moment at present, for me at least. I was about to have to resort to actually doing some modelling rather than just writing about it.

Happy days! I have found some photos of the GNR tar tanks! Interestingly, these are both branded UTA (the photos date from 1959 post-split), but were photographed at Inchicore: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53507104989 https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53507218565

I've just been trawling through the IRRS photo archive looking for something else, and found some photos of Dun Laoghaire in the 1950s, where a water tank of this type had been painted as an advertisement for Kingston Shirts. So if you fancied a brighter paint scheme on your water tower then there's a good precedent. The IRRS photos show some good closeups of parts of the lettering: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53507111269 https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53505868742 https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53507068729 Ernie's views are more distant but show it in glorious colour - bright orange with black and white lettering:

Would the good folks in IRM Towers be able to comment?

Even my mobile thinks IRM is stalling....