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I notice lots of goods engines are 0-6-0 while passenger or mixed engines have a pony truck so are 0-4-2, 2-4-0 or whatever. What is the general reason for this, pulling power versus ride?
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Just about worked out what the right-hand gantry is doing, the left-hand gantry looks like more complex trackwork over there. The home gantry in the distance looks much simpler.
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Those outline ones, wrongway shunt? No starting signal on centre road?
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Thinking about it the ultimate in compression is 1:1. Look at any lineside photo, perspective compresses the track layout massively. Scale seems to impose a viewpoint, from distant to immediate. I expect the level of detail and the viewpoint need to align too.
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Think that was posted on here around three months ago.
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Think so, there's that obelisk on the hill https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killiney_Hill ...never heard of Obelisk Hill railway station though.
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Maybe everyone was struggling with the idea of something powered yet not having a front end and a back end. Did those Drumm battery electrics ever have a flying snail?
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Wasn't there a LNWR station somewhere around North Wall?
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I wonder are there any photos of the siding at Cloghan Point, nothing there now. NIR was a once a year thing for me and the Larne line was always a bit confusing. Ballylumford Power Station seemed to move paradoxically in the landscape and Larne Lough narrowed to become Belfast Lough?! Lots of little halts with names like Glynn and Eden, then one year everything went industrial with overhead pipes, a jetty and a siding. A great little journey, underrated for sure.
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Still, we have the second spoil contract to look forward to. I remember passing a spoil train in a siding at Kilroot mid-70s, there seemed to be a conveyor belt heading out to a new jetty being built.
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Are those suburban carriages the ones known as 'Larne steelers'?
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On Alexandra Road, Dublin Port 400 feet long Timesaver with 'piano line' exit from upper turnout, no kickback so no loop required... maybe reverse lower turnout to a kickback and mimic a loop offscene to the right using a traverser
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Compound off Alexandra Road, Dublin Port 400 feet long Inglenook with sector plate entry and 'piano line' exit, allows working through to some other facility
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Reminds me of this Bernard Manning one A man says to his wife, pack your bags I've won the Pools Oooh, where are we going? Nowhere, pack your bags and f*** off
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Between Downhill and Castlerock tunnel portals 400 feet long Pointless, but you get the rare chance to model a somersault distant signal
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That's one good-looking locomotive. Seems like the whole Balkans is plagued with that crappy graffiti though.
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Hmmm... can anyone else see a 'flying snail' on that NSB loco?
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Will be some standard GM switcher they can put whatever body you want onto. The GL8, an export model https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_GL8 Taiwan, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Ireland, Brazil, so on four continents but the one in the photo might just be a sales prototype. I had some involvement with GM/EMD and the spiel was they arrived by sea with a full tank and could pull a train away from the docks the same day!
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The parallelogram loop (offset exits, equal sides) really does add flow to a layout, where the more prototypical trapezium loop (inline exits, unequal sides) would look much too compressed. So alongside the principle that offset mitigates linear compression (eg: Minories) maybe we should add that a loop only looks as good as its shortest side?
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Maybe a scenic break on a diagonal to obscure the view from the front into the fiddle yard \ | ^ It doesn't really need explaining as anything 'on layout'. Think of it as something in the viewer's immediate foreground, the corner of a building, a treetrunk, fencepost, or even the edge of his own pupil.
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If that was the underlying policy it also explains why snails may have been improperly reversed on some railcars, single driving ends could very easily have been assumed to have a single direction of travel.
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Is it fair to say the reversed snail only appeared on vehicles that had a single direction of travel*, ie: where the snail could be made to point in the same forward direction on each side by changing it's handedness. * except, maybe, some railcars as noted I love this forum!
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Yep, before I knew where it was... I knew where it was.
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I like rationalised track layouts, not the brutal remodellings but the gentler renewals that leave subtle hints of a former layout. Abrupt transitions Straightlined turnouts (x2) Undulating loops Resignalled with ground position lights and stop boards these remnants add character and history to an otherwise dreary network. Spindly, wonky, unexplained... as characteristic of its time as the diamond crossing or the goods loop and something we should capture while we still can. Any more? The no headshunt, the widely-splayed stub, the fan of one sidings...
