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Pictures would help…..

Good luck. Have a good look around and see if there is any special oil with it. Normal stuff won’t cut it - you need steam oil. I used to ensure the cylinders and regulator especially were thoroughly lubed. Should be able to get Wilesco Z83 in the Euro zone -not much point me telling you what we can pick up in GB.

Well known UK steam brand still on the go. Having had one, the locos were difficult to fire and control as they used solid fuel tablets and a very crude regulator valve. A gas burner mod improved things a bit, but there was a cottage industry of ‘taming Mamods’ and you could make them relatively serviceable machines. https://www.mamod.co.uk/

Well, I thought I knew a reasonable amount of SLNC lore. But the survival of Railbus 2As body in Mohill in the early 60s? Wow!! You have to be paid up IRRS for this link to work https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53467659222/in/photolist-2psKJiu-2pBT6Vn-2pwr5PS-2pwxy2Y-2pwC7KV-2pwCQx5-2pBQQE2-2pBQDEM-2pBSTmQ-2pwC7KQ-2pwCYrv-2pwxzwB-2pwC8TS-2pwCQHL-2pwCQSo-2pwDqgi-2pvxd9R-2pwp7Bt-2pwxJAJ-2pwD1By-2pwr5PG-2pwwCPW-2pwwExf-2pwBh5o-2pwDsGa-2pwC4Pg-2pwDqgo-2pBStdU-2pBSSPc-2pBSic1-2pBSTh1-2pwpyuQ-2pwqFZJ-2pwwC9s-2pwwEUn-2pwC6QA-2pwCSUz-2pwCTcD-2pwDpZf-2pwDt92-2pBSTj5-2pwoK1F-2pwBhyz-2pwCV3h-2pwCV7W-2pwDuZw-2pvv3WY-2pvxdfY-2pvxq6S-2pwp7Hv

Thanks Alan. I’ll let that percolate and see what results I can brew up. I’ve got some real wood sleepers to paint and your techniques look fab. Hopefully your wisdom will filter through to my brushes! I’m also a huge fan of 27004 for all kinds of uses.

Well that’s certainly bean worth it, and stirred up the daily grind. Fabulous weathering. The iron work looks just spot on against the faded wood. How was the magic done, please?

The besetting national weakness is generally talking big rather than a plenitude of cognitive activity

Don’t stress too much Patrick. My son developed an obsession with Dublin Bus Leyland Olympians as a child….and is currently a professional railwayman…..

Now this is exciting ! Really looking forward to seeing this develop! For those of you who have never seen Paul’s work….http://www.s-scale.org.uk/gallery15.htm

That’s nicely done.

Fabulous work Ken - and one’s mind doesn’t necessarily turn to cameras in mid-solder! It’s incredible how ‘big’ a small engine can be. Years ago I had a 7mm G6 which I thought quite small …..until it met a Terrier….

That’s interesting re a near-Patriot. A green one appears briefly in the original Awdry books as it happens - the ‘big city engine’ whose derailment permits Gordon a brief off-island excursion. https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Big_City_Engine

Fabulous - if Mac approved that’s a seal of approval indeed. Awdry’s initial story series was entirely drawn from real life railway incidents.

Thanks Ken. Tried that in the past and found it tricky - so reassuring that you do too!

Lovely work Ken. Any chance of a look at the roof springs please? I’ve often pondered such a thing…..

The illustration in the book simply shows the split train, with no evidence of dismembered cattle parts or blood spattered planks. The clear impression is that - however contrary to the laws of physics - the cows broke through unscathed.

Can only assume the hosting has lapsed. The editor is still actively compiling the next print edition, I do know.

The role of the goods guard is easily underestimated - they had a crucial job to do managing coupling tension on a loose coupled train. A fantastic display inside a brake van at Bucks Railway Centre, Quainton Road, opened my eyes on this, which I hadn’t really twigged before. The work involved in getting a long train over a difficult curved and steep road such as Portadown to Derry or Sligo to Enniskillen was challenging to put it mildly…..

The duel of Sir Handel and George the Steamroller was directly drawn from a 1927 episode on the Cork and Muskerry.

Are you winding us up?

Ground that can never be walked too often! There was almost a stay of execution for the SLNCR when talk was made of keeping Omagh-Enniskillen open as a long siding for cattle traffic from the west. Realistically it would have to have shut by about 1960 anyway I think. The PW was knackered and even the 1951-delivered tanks were ailing. As roads and car ownership developed in the SLNC catchment area, it would have been used less and less and was bound to collapse in the short term. Mind you, that doesn’t stop me imagining G and C class locos cascaded into SLNC ownership staggering on until the 1980s David Briggs did a nice ‘what if’ painting of a 2000s Enniskillen, with the SLNC under IE running.

Interesting Minister. I was thinking along similar lines so to speak. Much as I have enjoyed hot food on board, and sometimes a cup of tea is enough, its the unusual juxtaposition of pleasures which is delightful rather than the quality of the cuisine. Like Dr Johnson’s comments on a dog walking upright - one wonders not that it is done badly but that it is done at all. The ‘glory days’ I recall when trolleys appeared even on the early morning Newcastle-Stranraer, when a fresh cup of tea enlivened the Scottish lowlands are gone for ever sadly. The economics don’t stack up, and punters can get a drink and snack to take onboard from station facilities that are much more lavish than they were decades ago. Here on the Big Island it’s a luxury for first class and long distance. Indeed at least one TOC has scrapped it entirely …read why below. Interestingly, Chiltern’s London-Birmingham service is similar in timings to the Enterprise, and runs with similar loco-hauled stock, but manages without dining facilities. Pic from Railway Gazette https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15289458.rail-operator-announces-will-scrap-on-board-catering/

He does some very nice ones indeed, although this one cannot be 1950 as on that date the two Loughs were still in Manchester awaiting the SLNC’s long delayed payment …..https://www.painters-online.co.uk/gallery/davidb77/transport-paintings/285917/

Those Terriers make O gauge so accessible - relatively inexpensive and well suited to a small layout. That’s how the 7mm bug bit with me and started off my first layout……