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  1. Galteemore
    Drumkeeran Road had its show debut today. A nice local show - so local I could leave house at 9 and be home by 5. Layout has performed well with just a few glitches but nothing dramatic. Lovely to meet lots of people who took an intelligent and often informed interest in the layout. A few photos, including a rare passenger working by Blessingbourne…..
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    What he said! A joy. Looks like a new-ish cement van in the siding. Thanks Ernie
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    Sadly, a WT and not a Z class - Lough Erne was well out of commission by 1984.
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    As far as the 450s go, anything that moved was better! Here’s a fascinating photo from that 1984 era. All is not as it seems - there’s a large black tank engine at the other end banking!! Photo on RPSI website by I Smyth
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    Has a Finaghy look to me….
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    Should be a nice little project. Those card kits eat blades though so a spare stash of SM blades would be handy !
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    Looks like the tag off a mail satchel or similar. ‘Big houses’ often had such things at local railway stations or post offices, to convey their post privately. One can still be seen at Florencecourt House, Co Fermanagh, which was used to convey the Earl of Enniskillen’s mail to and from the SLNC station there.
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    First item of C and L stock - brake van. Body is a 3D print mounted on an old Farish chassis - the built in moulded chassis was a bit sub par and needed broken off! Railings built up from plastic rod and entomological pins. Needs a bit of weathering but priority right now is building stock for Saturday’s show !! Have also created a little cameo of two locals chatting on the road….
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    Very nice. Note the classic SLNC nameplates of red lettering, and also red coupling rods and bosses - not often seen but just glimpsable here. The second view of 27 looks as if she’s near her withdrawal date.
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    You say that JB, but the Cavan and Leitrim did actually toy with the idea of a similar yoke over a hundred years ago for the mails! Lovely GN stuff - the amount of such historic iron ware that passed through our house over the years….,
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    Terrific work, Phil. The KS 2-6-0 is a lovely loco - look forward to learning more. Kathleen’s exciting all right - especially as it’s meant to be the start of a range ! Imagine - an NCC 2-4-2T or a C & M ‘Blarney’……Neil Ramsay has produced stuff in 45mm gauge - see below - but mass production makes it more available for us lesser mortals…..
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    If you get the livery of the cart right, it at least says ‘Ireland’ in a way that scale 4’ gauge track decidedly does not!
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    That makes perfect sense. Salmon pink…. in the 70s, we had an old hedge trimmer stored in the long byre - which had probably travelled to Dromahair on the SLNC when new - and every so often when the turf piled over it reached a certain level, you’d see those pink wheels !
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    Like it. With the NIR rail bus painted two tone SLNC green waiting in the bay…..
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    Looks like a half demolished loco shed.
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    Lovely stuff Ernie. 4T is my favourite T and D loco even though it was despised in Tralee for its poor brakes. On the C and L, where fatal consequences were much less likely to ensue from this failing, it was more popular!
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    Wonderful stuff David. Just full of 1950s magnificence.
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    I’d approach someone like Johnstown Museum in Wexford re vehicles, and Gurteen Agricultural College or others can advise re breeds and what was historically used locally. In terms of the smaller scales, colour is as important as anything, and painting a generic cart orange and blue will give it an Irish flavour. This is a 3mm scale one I did recently - there will be milk churns in the back as per Ernie’s photo above! My mother was very familiar with these carts as a child in the 50s in N Leitrim and says that the driver always sat perched in front as it made the weight distribution easier for the donkey to manage.
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    When ‘Blanche’ was loaded, she was 15 tons over the load limit for the wagon. The bearings kept running hot and the crew taking her to Portadown spent 18 hours booked on, as it took so long to get the load safely down the line. Delays to the Derry Road schedule that day were significant….my dad saw these loads in transit, and recalls Blanche at Portadown without a chimney (presumably removed for gauging purposes).
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    Perhaps these may have a future yet - using surplus industrial steam for shunting is quite eco-friendly……
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    Brilliant Eoin. Reminds me of when 85 was being rebuilt at Harland and Wolff 40 years ago….at least the Belpaire firebox allows a little more room than the original round top!!
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    Very smart locos. The Irish 4-4-0 was such a varied phenomenon - and the early 50s was arguably the Indian summer of it all - everything from ancient, spidery GSW types as in Ernie’s lower photo, to the gleaming blue bulk of the GN VS, not to mention the 3’ tanks hammering across south Leitrim……
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    Looks great David and thanks for the reminder to those of us who are mostly show ‘consumers’ of just what it takes to put on a show. Hope Mrs H appreciated having such a quality layout erected in her home - what a privilege!
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    Absolutely classic stuff - wonderfully atmospheric.
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