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Fabulous. My family place in N Leitrim comes to mind - all those red tin roofs!

Hope she’s better at publicity than plate laying - that’s a seriously staggered joint….

Indeed. It’s over 30 years old now, and currently residing in West Sussex. Last noted appearance was Scaleforum at Aylesbury 2018

Would love to see some photos of your work HT - sounds really good stuff.

Needs to watch Alec Guinness in ‘The Man in the White Suit’ - 1951 comedy movie about a man who invents an everlasting fabric- and subsequently targeted by irate mill-owners…..

Sadly both of us were there too late to see the runaway tram…..

Ah the benefits of a N Belfast grammar school education…. Ken Hawtin would be so proud…..;) Very nice work

Excellent stuff. Be interested to see your method of replicating the vestibule - bound to be more sophisticated than mine

It’s the only place that will host them now. The denizens of Bundoran still recall the night that a local woman insinuated irregular scoring practices by the sisters at a beetle drive. The GN had to lay on a special van full of replacement windows for the parish hall….

The Sisters of Perpetual Responsibility on their annual retreat? It never ends well ….there’s still marks on the wall from the time they appeared at bingo night in the parish hall last year….

So sorry to hear that David, and thought I was having a bad day at the bench yesterday !! Don’t know why we do it to ourselves….but the result will be worth it. As you say, in the scratch building world there’s always another project to distract for a while….

Yes jndeed. The Derry Road was not planned as a single entity but was a blend of various railway projects (eg Omagh to Derry was part of a line from Dundalk via Enniskillen) and the line was notoriously demanding on locos and crews to work. Loco frames for instance took a hammering over the various curves and banks. The construction and routing was also based on a very different railway operating model - that of the common carrier for freight, mail and passenger services. Although I’d love to hear 131 barking up Carrickmore bank as she used to!

CIE kept up the practice re ballasting and the Dundalk-Drogheda section was always fairly tidy into the 80s as I recall it. Would be interested in @leslie10646 comments on how well Moguls performed on Dublin passenger work. 98 certainly looks well fired passing Fr Murphy’s.

That Donegal railbus will climb a bit in next few days …..seller has a few items that @Colin R would fancy I think ……

Great idea for an independent line. You have a penchant for back stories (many modellers don’t actually take that seriously enough) and such a scenario would allow you to run appropriate stock. Consistency is key. Think what your board of directors’ policy was and why it was adopted. Eg SLNCR found that only 0-6-4T locos gave reliable running so all brand new locos were to that design. The tight curves etc of your line might be the reason that only UK industrials would be suitable for it. Come up with a suitable selection of rolling stock - 4w or 6w coaches, and light wagons, letter them G and SCR and you’re away. Focus on the scenery and buildings to make the layout look suitably Irish.

Think it’s a scratchbuilder thing - I get very excited over things like piercing saw blades and rivet presses….

There are rumours that Alfred Hitchcock had a holiday there in 1961 and was so traumatised he came home and made a movie about it….

Re point 2, @Westcorkrailwaymade a very nice little WLWR style tank out of a UK loco, and has been showing some 3D tanks he’s associated with

Exquisite. The resin rivets are really good and shown to good effect here.

Sounds dreadful David. Occasionally you hit a spot where nothing seems to go right and you find yourself wondering if cross stitch or crochet might be more rewarding - accompanied by dark thoughts of taking a hammer to the delicate brass framework in front of you. Alan’s right. Park it somewhere and go make a plasticard wagon or something completely non-loco related….

I was soutane you’d get it , but I really hope it’s a biretta rather than a Beretta….

It’s a loco jack. Used for re-railing locos in a derailment. Most railways dispensed with them eventually but in Ireland they were carried most notably by Sligo Leitrim locos right up until closure.

I can’t cope with any more of this…

The last one certainly looks like you stole it from somewhere. Was there a mass exodus from the chapel to witness the incident?

That’s not half bad. At least one compromise is apparent straight away but it’s a characterful and recognisable model, with a fair paint job. Blackening the wheel rims would be a big help.