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  1. Galteemore
    EBay seems to have a few ...
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    To be honest, I think the prototypical original livery is the culprit here - it does not scale down well perhaps - and certainly doesn’t lend itself to detail and contrast. The decorated samples of the 121 look fantastic in B and T but this anaemic greyness does them no favours. Some subtle weathering of panel lines etc will quickly bring out the true greatness of the model and blend the handrails in.
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    Deserves to be a member of Aosdána for service to Irish culture !
  4. Galteemore
    Looks terrific Ken. Such an elegant loco. Lovely paint job too!
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    Having seen the real things daily on my school commute, I get the point, and they could have earned an honest crust at Downpatrick. They were rather odd little things though, and not really classic or representative of Ulster traction. A greater loss in that sense was the old MPD unit (64 I think) that hung around York Road at the same time.
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    What a brilliant photo. Really good view of how the station was split by the roadway. Much of scene still recognisable today. I think the tank farm is now a car park. Olderfleet Hotel bottom left sat derelict for many years before demolition-a small portion remains.
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    Panzer grey. Funnily enough, this is a subject WW2 modellers also debate.....
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    Great - thanks. I’d looked at Panzer paint and wondered - my next GSR loco will be ‘Guderian grau’......
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    They had Lobitos rail tanks on the big island - I had one in 7mm when I modelled GB stuff! My wife is a Larne girl and my parents in law still live there. My father in law certainly remembers LOBITOS slogan from his youth ‘Less Oil Better Ignition TOp Speed...’ AFAIK oil by rail was never a big thing in NI. I remember an oil tank wagon which sat at York Road for years but think that was company related and not commercial. There was War Department traffic to a fuel siding near Tillysburn but I’m not sure what the actual flow of traffic was.
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    Fantastic work David! I’m a big fan of D-Limonene for such work. Any tips on how you did the louvres please ?
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    Hurrah for SSM of The West !
  12. Galteemore
    No one’s mentioned the Sligo Leitrim !
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    Lovely job David. Nice to see them coming together. I do know one 36.75mm modeller who may have bought a few.....! I’m thinking of the resin route myself when I get round to wagon building again. The sheer amount of bolts, rivets and brackets required to produce a single wagon only becomes apparent when you start trying to model them....
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    Looks terrific Ken, especially that last lineside level photo.
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    Very slow progress on ‘Enniskillen’. Compounded by a lack of time and lots of mistakes. But a buffer beam is done, ready to solder up. The safety chain eyelets are Slaters wagon bearings. Much of the learning has revolved around the mighty GW Rivet Press. A capable tool in the right hands - but am sure even I can make something of it. I’m slowly learning its modus operandi ! And literally counting rivets.....the buffers are really meant for a Fowler 4F btw but they seem to pass muster.
  16. Galteemore
    The 15 from College green to Rathmines for me - although usually walked it. Lovely models.
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    Thks Ernie. This was indeed the last ‘normal’ goods working, my source confirms - he was on it with Mike that day. He then got a Derry-Omagh train - returning to Strabane to catch last train of day to Sixmilecross. Overnight there then last train of all from Derry to Belfast
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    That figures. The trees in the background also look rather bare which suggests a date late in the year.
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    My dad did that one a few times just before closure in 59 - managed to get all over the system. It was pretty spectacular all right. I think the trip I envy him most though was on a lifting train near Enniskillen. He made it to Bundoran by train too but biggest regret is probably not getting over the SLNC.
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    Have just spoken to Mike Shannon’s travelling companion of the era, who took many similar photos. He thinks it’s taken off a Strabane - Derry goods, possibly near 1965
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    Is that the Cooper photo collection from Strabane? I catalogued some of that in a summer job at PRONI 30 years ago.....it often took a lot of head scratching to work out what many of the images were. There was one particularly impressive sequence which turned out to be the funeral of General Ambrose Ricardo in Sion Mills. I have a vague memory that there were images of the Strabane - Letterkenny line under construction in the collection.
  22. Galteemore
    True classics last. Some US outfits still employ the Dakota as a workhorse and not a museum piece.
  23. Galteemore
    The Hunter is a truly beautiful airframe. Still in use, I think, by MoD contractors for various purposes such as the ‘Thursday war’.
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    Check out the IRRS photo archive too. Tony Burges’ book on ‘Lakeland railways’ has a good external view. Strictly speaking, Manorhamilton didn’t have a shed. This was the loco works, but it was used for stabling engines in the absence of an appropriate alternative. A photograph from Ernie’s archive may help illustrate what the exterior would have looked like at the Enniskillen end.
  25. Galteemore
    The x is probably aimed more at road traffic when swung across the carriageway. The signal is an indicator to the oncoming train that the crossing keeper has closed the gates in a timely manner !
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