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One of the issues I had to address was how to ‘model’ the rest of the station. Enniskillen had a rather large station building which looms large in photos of the Sligo bay. It’s never going to be in focus on this layout but has to be at least suggested. I’m no artist but had a go, working very much off J H Ahern’s principles. A loading gauge and half-relief open wagon also help close off the scene a bit. I also sketched in a suggestion of canopies, pillars and shadows suggesting the main station platforms stretching beyond the Sligo canopy. Still a few tweaks but getting there. The layout is designed to be viewed side on rather than at this angle so a vague impression of depth is what we are after, really.

Must be possible with a CriCut or similar. Or one of the laser cutting kit companies might do a commission ?

Iconic loco. Fairly reliable for the era, as it could pick up over a longer footprint than the typical trainset 0-6-0. And you didn’t need DCC sound - growled away naturally!

On a diet of Gallagher’s, Guinness and beef stew I have little difficulty in imagining the mephitic conditions! I do know what you mean though…,

There was. Even more inaccessible as it was blown up by the Army c1970. The depression in the ground was visible for decades afterwards.

Wonderful. What a lovely conversation shot at Dromod. Unusual to see a T2 on the Irish North

I think, IIRC, the situation arose from full order books with GB loco manufacturers in the late c19th, so a few odd US locos found their way to these islands. GCR, GNR, Midland all had them. The first US import was actually as early as the 1840s.

@WRENNEIREmay weigh in here, but my own understanding is that these are production over/runs or maybe seconds. This is probably the supplier

Walsworth Models will make you an Irish O sentinel in brass for the price of a Dapol - or even less I think …..£154 built to your spec……and I have discussed the Irish variant with him so it’s possible to get an accurate one: https://www.walsworthmodelservices.co.uk/product-page/sentinel-y1-3

Fabulous work David. For what it’s worth, I think that the Swilly logo is an improvement!

Fabulous. Rowland Emmett in a kilt.

If you’re going for the authentic SLNC look you’re almost there

Amen to the above. And help is available http://www.55ng.co.uk/ check out the Irish layout ‘Ahascragh’ in the gallery section.

Agreed. Bit of T cut, stick a snail on the tender and you’re away. Small things like sticking on a smokebox door wheel will add instant effect.

Yes, quite Patrick. I am sure Leslie will be paying honour and tribute to the mighty and magnanimous railway that constantly propped up the poor old GN in its western extremities… .

Thanks - thought that would be the case unless separate 21mm brake mouldings were included. It’s worth it all in the end, we tell ourselves….

Interesting HT.How do the brake shoes work for 21mm? When I convert 6w chassis to 5’3” in 7mm scale I have to cut the brake hanger and shoe etches off and resolder 2.5mm further out - how does it work out in this scale and medium ?

Thanks - sadly my RPSI knowledge has lapsed from the minute by minute currency I had in my childhood! There are a few spare boiler projects kicking around in GB so my synapses must have made a false connection … Going back to those RPSI days, when I basically travelled on any trip doing fundraising, the carriage officer was Alan Edgar, who later built this superb 21mm Mogul

Yes, I am aware of that. My heart applauds the project. My head says a second WT would have been a more prudent use of the spare parts. These spares - the boiler and wheels - are the core of the second Jeep that the RPSI could - and would have - bought in 1971 had the funds been available. I was born in Carrickfergus in spring 1971 - only realised recently that a mile from the hospital a number of Jeeps still slumbered awaiting their appointment with the oxy torch. But I don’t want to disrupt @WRENNEIREs thread. Hopefully he’s got a 21mm WT to post!!

Lovely. IIRC 97 was also the last to exist and almost made it to preservation.

Works for me just now…http://www.studio-scale-models.com/Orders.shtml

Unusual to see a model in the original 1932 livery - and with the correct non-Belpaire firebox.

Very gracious of you to reflect on it in that way all these years later JB . How did you make it home in the end?

With the added fun of shrinking a 3 axle bogie to a 2 axle one…..

Is that St Luke’s, Knockmourne? Great pics