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Galteemore
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Alan Gee’s ‘Burtonport’?
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A pleasing knot of trackwork in lower pic. Shaping up nicely
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As opposed to a trunk route. To keep vaguely on topic, the bridge that crossed the Bann near Macfin can still be glimpsed in the depths of the river on clear days, according to friends who farm adjacent land. I think part or all of the girder structure was simply dropped in the Bann when the line was lifted !! On a similarly riparian topic, one of my favourite sights on the trip to grandparents in Leitrim was the blown up SLNC border bridge at Blacklion. Probably the most substantial piece of SLNC engineering infra left for us to see! Pics courtesy Facebook , Canoe NI and Thomson Reuters.
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Thanks Mayner - not being a 4mm modeller I took a stab in the dark at code 80!
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Closely related to the U class ‘Lough Neigh’!
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Great stuff. Rail is dead easy - it’s old Peco code 100. Sleepers from Marcway. Scale Seven Society do 36.75mm gauges. If you don’t fancy the 5’3 thing, it’s dead easy to get track gauges for standard 32mm
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Indeed there was. Shannonvale Mill in Clonakilty..... http://homepage.eircom.net/~decmac/images/millhorse.jpg
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I’m an arts grad meself I had to get my gauges made for 36.75mm but 00 gauge ones should be easy enough to find. You will find that hand built track has a much finer look irrespective of scale. Here’s a link to the rail and gauges https://peco-uk.com/products/code-80-flat-bottom-rail Marcway will do sleepers. http://marcway.net/
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_profile Prototype info above. As for modelling it, making your own FB track is as easy as anything with Code 80 rail or similar, and copper sleepers. An hour with a soldering iron and you’ll have loads ! As long as you paint and ballast properly it’ll be fine to have the two types together. But if it’s a lightly laid beet line, don’t ballast it like a main line! Here’s some I made earlier...
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Yes, they have lots of advantages. Low cost, easily stored, can be finished in a reasonable time, and don’t need much stock. Not much use if you want to see an A4 at speed with 8 bogies, but sometimes one has to compromise ! Carl Arendt’s site was always a joy - not so easy to navigate as the site has gone through changes since his death, but here’s a reasonable link: https://www.carendt.com/category/micro-layout-design-gallery/
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Light railway and industrial modelling has really taken off in the UK - certainly in 7mm. This fits in with that. Small trains which mean one can have a layout in a small space but with some quirky variety. This is like the Model Rail Sentinel which came out a few years ago - which similarly included a bonus Irish spin-off!
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Caldercraft Talacre - Steam Ship Finished.
Galteemore replied to Georgeconna's topic in Aviation & Maritime Modelling
Yes but if he had bog rolls in the hold the shareholders would be set for life! Better than cheap tin trays.... -
Do it one way this week and the other way the next. One of the toilet graffiti memes that I remember from my undergrad days was - why did the arts student leave his curtains closed in the morning? So he had something to do in the afternoon ....
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He should have gone to Buggleskelly - ‘next train’s gone’!
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Lovely - one of my favourite spots. Apparently the Guards captured a German agent in the vicinity either there or at the Junction in 1940/41. He was waiting for a train by the most up to date timetable the Abwehr had - which didn’t factor in the closure!
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Hazards of age is right. ‘Lion’ of ‘Titfield Thunderbolt’ fame still has a dent in her rear end from a rough shunt in the 1952 movie
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Stranger things have happened ...https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=furness+railway+20&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiNzILTjK7oAhUT4RoKHcszDWwQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=furness+railway+20&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.3..0j0i8i30.10809.14590..15051...1.0..0.131.1789.17j4......0....1.........35i39.BEg6n6Lx5Ek&ei=L1x3Xs34EZPCa8vntOAG&bih=628&biw=375&client=safari&prmd=insv&hl=en-gb#imgrc=Res66z8zI69inM
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And this one really is held together with matchsticks by all accounts...Image from cork heritage.ie
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Even the gift of 186 was the result of a chance intervention by the Chairman of Guinness - someone who must have had considerable clout back then! He chaffed the chair of CIE when Guinness handed a shunter over to the RPSI - ‘we have two steam locos and we gave them one. You have a lot more - why don’t you donate one?!’.
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Yes, I had a conversation with the character who was RPSI treasurer in 1971 (when No 4 was secured) about this. I suspect he might agree! Mind you, wasn’t there also a UG and an SG3 kicking around Grosvenor Road till about 1970? What name for 211, Leslie? Tolka, Bann, Farset ?!
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True. I suspect any new build steam will have to be fuelled by coal scented ethanol anyway
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Bandon tanks were pretty good - and held their own when drafted into DSE commuting turns...
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If there was the spare cash (and I think all our spare cash for decades will go to paying for the current crisis) I suspect that a new build one of these might be better - no less Irish but rather more manageable size. How fast they could shift a rake of Mk2s to meet timetable paths is another story....https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/IRISH-RAILWAYS/CORAS-IOMPAIR-EIREANN-STEAM/i-2ZdkRzC/A
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Yes it’s a shame that Ireland just doesn’t have the economic basis to support anything like the same variety UK preservation sees. Having said that, the restoration of 131 from what had become a kit of dispersed bits is highly impressive. Lough Erne is a lovely loco but too big for Downpatrick (ie inefficient to run) and too small for mainline work. The same issue means that 186 and 184 will almost certainly never steam again. There is a case to be made for Dunluce Castle but I suspect the money would be better spent on the new build NCC Mogul ( although a 2nd WT class probably has more utility).
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Love the Hazlewood, the real thing sadly just missed out on a place at the new Belfast Transport Museum as it was known in 1957. Nice story about the wagon too. When travelling the back road from Manorhamilton to Dromahair in the 80s, there was still part of an SLNC carriage in a garden. Gone when I visited last year.
