Galteemore

Great video Patrick. Fabulous model but think a backscene would finish it off !

Nice work. Wish I’d thought of that window bar idea when doing my Sligo tank !

559 gets my vote. Those W and T cabs must have been comfy but are aesthetically horrible !

Thanks everyone. I may try and get her running some day but at least I have another 4-4-0 which scratches the itch. And am working on another …..

In case is of any help, here’s some cab interior views of the one I built about 5 years ago

Very atmospheric. And the best CIE livery of all

Excellent Alan. Until I started into this game I’d never realised that ‘fettle’ was a synonym of ‘frustration’

I promised in a post to @Warbonnet to show my next loco this week. So here we are. Some years ago I was so struck by @Colonel’s Wolf Dog MGW 4-4-0 at a show that I decided to build a small 4-4-0 of my own. I picked a GNRI J class, as sold to the SLNCR in 1921 - Glencar and Black Lion (yes spelled as two words). Now eventually finished after almost 5 years of intermittent activity. Although it has run, I have decided to take the (very pricey) motor and gearbox out and keep it as a static model for various reasons, not least the fact that it’s out of my chosen period. I also made various silly mistakes in its construction which are now coming back to bite me. One was putting the hornblocks at the back axle - another was trying to copy the original’s frame profile rather than simplifying with flat frame tops. These have caused a few snags that would probably be best resolved with a new chassis. I just can’t be bothered with that right now! So into a display case it will go. It’s a significant model despite its many flaws. For one thing I think it’s the only model in existence of a J class, which was the ancestor of every other GNR 4-4-0. For another, it’s a unique blend of Irish loco kit designers. The smokebox and boiler are altered Alphagraphix JT etches. The cab and splashers are Worsley - perhaps his last ever Irish design. Tender body scratch, as are both loco and tender chassis. Massive thanks to @Paul 34F whose drawings helped immensely. For some reason this old thing reminds me of an illustration in the Sammy the Shunter books……

At one time the line at Whitehead would also have given the partial impression of right hand running. The old tunnel line remained in situ for a while after the line had been operationally singled. So it looked as if the down trains were running RH.

Thanks Paul. EDN numerals for a dark green coach I think. I’ll take your advice for what’s needed for an ex MGW 6w c1955

This is most interesting. I have a few 6w ex MGW coaches to build. Am dithering about GSR maroon or green…..I have suitable GSR style transfers (LMS but they’ll pass) but no CIE green numerals. If only someone had some 7mm CIE number transfers ……and the RAL no for the green

Oh that’s horrible Alan. Same thing happened to me this week as I reassembled my latest loco. If you are not a loco-builder, it’s worth knowing that accurate rods are the foundation of a loco’s good running so anything that goes wrong with them is always distressing. Great solution

Thanks Paul. It would be the Sligo pilot I’d be looking at so no extended cab. If necessary I’ll do the large numbers but I do like the plates !

Most interesting. Any survive c1957 with small bunker and plates on the tank sides rather than painted numerals ? Asking for a friend….

Take a picture of a train in 1943 and you’d be in Crumlin Road as a spy! Drew Donaldson and Bob Clements were investigated by the Gardai for just such behaviour.

The net result is very impressive.

Wow. And rightly so. This layout stands alongside the best quality stuff you see here on the big island. It’s often the way with great layouts like this that everything’s made by one pair of hands - and eyes - somehow it all blends seamlessly to make a convincing scene.

Thanks Fran thanks Fran - understood and no offence meant! I don’t tend to follow FB and there’s clearly depths here that a nuclear sub could operate in. On the subject of online politeness it has to be said - as I have observed before - that you are a very notable exponent of dealing gently with fools! I’ll stick to posting what I know a little more about ….announcing my own new loco later this week. Although there’s only one and it won’t be sold anywhere - retail or direct!

So the OP has revised and refined their opinion, presumably in the light of new evidence ? Such behaviour is to be encouraged I’d have thought - it’s a sign of intelligence and graciousness surely ? Commentators in the media field would tell us that online communication is often characterised by people stubbornly clinging to simplistic analyses and not being persuadable!

That’s most interesting- it was a local for me 2015-2023. I also used AGR in Leighton Buzzard and Transport Treasures in Aston Clinton (shut c2021). The latter one I could actually walk to. Glad to hear J20 is still going. These places are great for stuff like paint and plasticard section which one often needs to see rather than buy at a distance.

Yep. When I do a major project now I have to buy everything up front just to make sure - last thing you want is to finish a loco and find that the gearbox you’d planned it round is suddenly unavailable …..

I had very little time for him until I saw some of the 3d stuff he’s designed and produced himself, including working locos. As Neil Postman would point out, the video medium doesn’t really lend itself to gravitas.

Changed days at Chatham !

It’s quite straightforward- just get various curved rods and off you go. Secret is to keep the curves gentle and just gradually change the radius

What tended to happen was wagons were loaded for each station and then dropped off/collected en route. The unloading would happen by station staff in slow time after the train had left.