Jump to content

Galteemore

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3,901

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    45

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Galteemore

  1. Galteemore
    It’s probably in Euclid somewhere....qualified by Freezer’s First Law...
  2. Galteemore
    Nice. Brass ?
  3. Galteemore
    Apparently it was occasionally filled to the rafters in its short life - stories of a platform bench being lifted into the guards compartment for extra capacity! Probably would never have been enough to save the line but a tantalising episode.
  4. Galteemore
    Yes it’s tantalising to see some pics but not much else! I’ve ordered the volumes of RMD that I was able to find.
  5. Galteemore
    Great stuff - let’s see pics as you progress!
  6. Galteemore
    I’m tempted by these 7mm ones as CIE doppelgängers.....https://invertrain.com/product/caledonian-railway-loco-lamp/
  7. Galteemore
    It’s a great plan which I had intended to try. My floppy backboard needed a brace though, so I had to insert that panel. I’ve found the novels of John Buchan quite helpful too, in a surprising way! One of his characters is an old South African hunter who points out that we often see what we expect to see. Hence how we get away with some simple visual tricks - the suggestion of a tree or a building at the edge of a layout is often enough. I suspect some of our scenic problems arise when we ‘gild the lily’ too much and draw unnecessary attention to things that the mind would happily ignore...
  8. Galteemore
    Indeed. Proper hydration is vital.
  9. Galteemore
    That figures. The high part seems to be aligned with the road access to the platform.
  10. Galteemore
    Athboy had similar provision of locomotive facilities. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/athboy100.com/2016/05/17/the-athboy-railway-station/amp/
  11. Galteemore
    Books are always a wise investment - although frustrating to wait for at times. I’ve bought a fair amount of hard to find books from the US and it’s always nice when one lands in! I’d go for FB rail - click below for a classic MGWR terminus. I’ll PM you a drawing. https://www.geograph.ie/photo/3117758
  12. Galteemore
    Thanks for the kind comments thus far. It’s been a steep learning curve! It has taken me many years to realise two things. First of all, I prefer building trains to running them. Secondly, although imperfect, I can actually produce some work which I can live with! Nothing much to show off stage and it’s rather untidy right now for pics! Here’s a few old ones. All four tracks run out into a blank area where a crude cartridge system will operate. I toyed with building a bridge to disguise the exit but it just wouldn’t have fitted with the geography and would have looked silly. So a fisherman’s hut is a simple view block. Richard Chown (the man who brought 36.75 to public notice in the 70s) argued that gaps in a backscene were less noticeable if under the visual horizon. Hence my crude tribute to Knocknarea.....
  13. Galteemore
    Looks good - especially the characteristic verandah ends. A small bead of filler along the roof/side gap would help a bit perhaps.
  14. Galteemore
    Makes sense, as one thinks about it, in the era before on board radios.
  15. Galteemore
  16. Galteemore
    Intrigued by this, I looked up the 1936 SLNC rules, as photographic evidence was inconclusive. The guidance is sparse to say the least. But they went all out on whistle codes....
  17. Galteemore
    Thank you. Much simpler than the GB system. I’ve just been installing lamp irons on the F6 I’m building and did wonder why it only had four in total!
  18. Galteemore
    Lamp code meanings broadly equivalent too? Thus F6 No 42 is on some kind of trip working....pic from Ernie’s archive...
  19. Galteemore
    Most helpful Angus - I can see some applications for the technique in 7mm too. Love the track - a long way from the Setrack and Kato I used as a N modeller !
  20. Galteemore
    Thanks David - a shameless borrow from your G2 build. This witness was mainly hostile as it turned out. After a bit of work it’s already improved though. There were a few gaps that have now vanished! It’s also blended the boiler in with the firebox. Almost at the end now. Frames have early painting and finishing in hand, including the odd CIE practice of painting the buffer stocks black (dark grey I mean ) Am so tempted to paint this loco in green with a flying snail on the tanks......
  21. Galteemore
    Very nice Noel. Brings out the detail.
  22. Galteemore
    Looks good. Is the text along the lines of ‘to run in passenger trains’ maybe?
  23. Galteemore
    https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&an=Clements+McMahon+&tn=&kn=&isbn= A rare copy has appeared. Very useful given your intentions
  24. Galteemore
    No problem. I used it to inform the signalling arrangements on my layout - ie none! Rosses Point is worked as Ballinrobe was.
  25. Galteemore
    Yes it’s an interesting book with lots of background material. I’ve attached a pic of the contents page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use

  I accept