Some interesting "Irish" locos for sale from Italy
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Jasus Roxy, the last time I made someone feel warm and fuzzy it cost me €100, and she wanted an extra €10 to leave her boots on
I think her name was Roxy as well ?
EBay Paul, a chap in Belfast was selling it on behalf of his father in law
Steve, I bought the Inter City set about 5-6 years ago, I still can find no reference about it, but at the time I thought it was the correct box etc
Yea, kinda thick over this one ,I was told the original one was kosher but with no reference to check, what do you do?
You pays your money and you takes your chances
Early Christmas present
I thought I had this set boxed off but when I saw the the Lid detail on this set I knew I was in trouble
New set
Ref number is 10 70221 4
Old set
The Lima O Gauge 4F in CIE livery is a very rare beast, one of the harder to find of the older "Irish" outline models
Lima N Gauge Irish is the rarest, followed by O, then HO and OO would be the most produced of the models
That appears to be a common problem with these locos
Run them on larger radius curves and longer points if you can
Weight can help but it seems to be the coupling arrangement on these particular locos
A friend asked about some of the Bachmann 57' CIE Coaches
I went to my stash and found a couple that I had not cataloged back in '12
Basically Bachmann had produced these coaches as LMS 57' and they owned the moulds etc
Murphy had them painted into CIE colours and given them a range of running numbers
Bachmann USA then had them produced into their 00651 Irish Railway set, N class loco & 3 57' coaches
I think it caused a bit of hassle at the time but nothing he could do about it
They also produced 2 additional coaches to enhance the set,74700 , 3rd class coach 1337 & 74701 a Brake 3rd 1088
Premium HO Scale but are in fact OO scale.
74700
74701
00651
The coaches in this set are:
3rd/Brake 1096
All 3rd 1333
1st/3rd 2097
So with the 5 that MM produced through Bachmann this makes a total of 10 of these fine coaches.
What really miffs me is why run a rake with all Orange or black roofs?
They were always of mixed format, a case of the next coach in line being added from the carriage shed
Also a Galway Restaurant or EGV added to a rake of InterCity liveried Mk 2's makes a nice combination, one that was seen on the network
Dont know why they are so hard to find Ray
Same amount of Black & Oranged roof ones were made
Still a few Black roofed ones around but haven't seen an Orange roofed one in ages
March 2011 they were issued so I suppose after 5 1/2 years it not too surprising
Try the DART on a Saturday night at about 11ish
Doesn't really matter what direction you travel, results will be similar
Don't forget to tuck your trousers into your boots.......