Galteemore

Jet 2, Brute ?

It’s tiny. Having built the chassis for it in 7mm (awaiting body etches) it is simply dwarfed by a PP (not a giant itself)

@Paul 34Fhas been very helpful to me on GN coaches

I have zero interest in this - not my era, not my thing - but have made a donation. Why? Because 50 years ago we missed the chance to preserve the last Irish cattle wagon, a synecdoche of the classic Irish freight scene. Let’s not make that mistake again. We always say ‘they should have preserved X…’ now’s your chance!

Thanks Paul. Was thinking mostly of the inside cylinder version. I just know that many people would be happy with a steam loco that looks more or less right, given that no workaday RTR Irish steam loco seems on the near horizon ! I wasn’t even considering 21mm. If my experience in 7mm is anything to go by, when modelling 5’3 steam to scale gauge, you really need to build the whole thing as such from the get-go, such are the clearances involved. I retro-fitted a loco from 32 to 36.75 once and wouldn’t do it again .

It’s a pity that none of the chassis are generic black wheels. Would surely be an ideal 3d body print opportunity to produce something Irish. The dimensions must be a rough match for something 5’3!

Have checked out the handbook on Irish industrial locos and it certainly wasn’t a powered line. As Eoin says, perfect way to do such heavy lifting. I remember seeing such a line at the Acropolis in Athens c1984 being used for heavy stone transportation. image courtesy ‘Industrial Gwent’. Just across the Irish Sea was a fascinating line, detached from the BR system, which did similar work with ancient locos. Search ‘Holyhead Breakwater Railway’

I have access to an e-version through my county library - it refreshed to the Oct edition this week. Great article and photos - with a nice plug for seeing it live at Aldershot !

Both trunk route and branch line gone then.

Interesting. No recent TripAdvisor reviews mention the railway. A review in 2021 says ‘they got rid of the train’. Doubtless someone will know more. Something may have happened the loco or track work and OPW just decided it wasn’t worth sorting. Appropriate they had a US style loco but something with a NYC or Boston and Maine livery might have better suited JFKs New England connections than Santa Fe!

Oh dear. I belong to the Order of Unreconstructed Luddites. We don’t even recognise the existence of DCC. But I’m sure we can get along

Lightnings….amazing to think they lasted as late as 1988 for what looks so 50s a design. So I did a bit of googling… Apparently Concorde was used in tests around 1985 against various NATO fighters; Mirages, F-15s etc. The only one which managed an intercept was a Lightning! A year before, the same pilot managed to intercept a U2 at over 26 kilometres of altitude….no wonder the thing drank fuel so much.

Always good to see you Bob. Would be especially worthwhile if you helped me sort the pickups on my stuttery JT…..my department left Gloucester about twenty years ago and another part of the business uses our old offices there so I don’t get back much.

Fab stuff Bob. I can always come and persecute you for an evening with some 36.75 stock ? Google says I live about an hour away…

I’m not really into planes but this is excellent. The F3 is a more elegant jet than its celebrated GR1/4 sibling!