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  1. Galteemore
    Most interesting. Perfect way to move bespoke loads such as horse boxes. The UTA, of course, aspired to predicate its entire freight traffic on such methods!
  2. Galteemore
    That’s very nice indeed. I’m sorely tempted by 09 - love the concept of a 15” gauge railway meandering through the landscape. Would be so easy with Kato mechanisms. Seeing stuff like the North Weald really doesn’t help me at all…..
  3. Galteemore
    I’m sure you could turn one out in plum and navy to appear at Whiterock, taking the BRA girls’ hockey team to play Whiterock High School.
  4. Galteemore
    On strict historical terms, Horsetan, it was not ‘The Emergency’ as far as the six counties were concerned. It was only called ‘The Emergency’ in Eire. NI was a fully fledged part of the UK and as such was a combatant region. Indeed, the first US troops to land in Europe landed in Belfast, and the US Rangers were formed in Carrickfergus To remain vaguely on track, Whitehead/Whiterock shed played a key part in ensuring the NCC’s resilience after the devastating raids on Belfast in April/May 1941.
  5. Galteemore
    An incredible number - 228 - Leopards were hi jacked and burned. Ulsterbus was run in those days by the remarkable Werner Heubeck - an Afrika Korps veteran from the Herman Goering Division. Heubeck was known for rescuing vehicles in highly risky settings - doubtless deploying skills he’d learned in Tunisia. The RUC despaired of his lone jogging round Belfast in the 70s as a prime target for IRA kidnap!
  6. Galteemore
    It’s an issue on the big island, where Network Rail have a dedicated department to deal with it. Drones/UAV/RPAS have a number of safety and security issues, as you hint at. Prob no harm to engage with IE’s operations team for guidance.
  7. Galteemore
    Where to begin…..
  8. Galteemore
    How Stalin would have loved it. So much easier than manual airbrushing. The issue is a significant worry, as surveys find people are putting more and more trust in social media (where AI thrives) as a news channel rather than established outlets.
  9. Galteemore
    Worsley works - you know me DJ - no RTR in sight! Given the topic thread title, it’s the creeping disappearance of suppliers like Allen that disturb me. In tens of trade barriers, I’d wanted an SSM PP but the Brexit effect put paid to that idea - amazingly I found one on UK eBay thanks to contacts on here.
  10. Galteemore
    I’m not going to quibble about incommensurables v relative values. Let’s just leave it there and attribute it all to me processing my guilt about having just made my largest ever single modelling purchase
  11. Galteemore
    It’s not really a generalisation DJ, but is based on empirical observations. Having spent parts of my working life in places where people literally cannot guarantee if they will eat tomorrow has rather changed my perspective on the relative luxury I live in. And yes, I have sold off previous stuff to fund my habit! The fact that I can allocate any assets at all to a mere hobby would be simply inconceivable in some of the places I have worked.
  12. Galteemore
    To be brutally honest, anyone who can afford to spend significant sums on what are essentially toys is, in global terms, rich beyond measure. In terms of Maslow’s pyramid, most of us are living quite far up on it….
  13. Galteemore
    Will PM you @Rob R if I can find the details ….
  14. Galteemore
    Poor old 184 was very short of breath by this stage. It’s a remarkable event though - probably the last standard gauge steaming in company service (CIE still owned 184) in these islands. 1907 has a strong case for being the last steam hauled passenger carriage!
  15. Galteemore
    Now that is rather nice. Like the flexibility being built in, too.
  16. Galteemore
    Fabulous stuff. Real echoes of Fintonagh/Swillybegs here. Although I am a little alarmed to see you drifting down the primrose path of 32mm again……;)
  17. Galteemore
    Fab. Correct route numbers and all! 163 was my local bus (Carrickfergus).
  18. Galteemore
    Great decision Patrick. Be a shame for it to simply stay in storage.
  19. Galteemore
    Terrific work. Instantly gives the loco Irish citizenship !
  20. Galteemore
    Shane’s Castle also recaptured very nicely the look of the Irish roadside tramway. Something I only appreciated fully on the last day of operations. IIRC Shane carries the chimney off a Burrell traction engine!
  21. Galteemore
    Fabulous effort. Really picks up on the variety which characterised 50s trains in Ireland. Coronation Scot-style corporate cohesion it was not….
  22. Galteemore
    Gorgeous. SLNC coach is still very new, and has the clerestory windows still - in later life the entire roof was felted.
  23. Galteemore
    This is arguably butchery and despoliation of a rare 6w survivor. And it’s magnificent. What an imaginative and sensible repurposing of a vehicle which would have otherwise had no real use in preservation. It reminds me of the UK heritage line which took an Austerity tank loco, ripped the tank off and converted it into a freelance tender loco - creative use of an asset to make something even more attractive and purposeful than the original. It’s highly likely that Inchicore would have done such a remodelling given the right circumstances. Kudos to Downpatrick once again !
  24. Galteemore
    Most striking Harry. Very interesting that they were brass, as loco handrails were normally steel.
  25. Galteemore
    Prams? Ex MGWR hearse van was used as a pram carrier on Tramore line. No fold up buggies in those days
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