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Oh, neat. Is it built from an IP Engineering kit, if you might know?

David, I have Magnesite wagon sets C and D, six wagons total. If those might interest you, and you cannot find a closer or better source, I'd be happy to discuss possible shipment to you from Chicago. Just send me a message. Martin Tuohy

Thank you. The Bredin coaches are sharp, but would be beyond my ability at this time. It looks like Des is only offering the postal van now: https://www.studio-scale-models.com/Coaches.shtml. The GSR Pullman coaches are a personal interest.

Which kit might you wish to buy?

The RTR County Donegal vans in 00n3 can be ordered directly by contacting Mr. and Mrs. Bruce by email or telephone. See the email address and other ways to contact them at https://www.ooworks.co.uk/order-contact-us. They do not have the models listed on the web site, but the offer of the models is published in the most recent New Irish Lines journal.

I just sent him an email (from here in Chicago) to ask him about Irish broad gauge in-stock kits in 4mm and 7mm scales. I've wanted to buy four of his Great Southern Railway of Ireland Pullman carriages, but blew out my discretionary spending last summer on his last in-stock Irish narrow gauge kits for the Cavan & Leitrim Railway, including ex-Tralee & Dingle carriages and 2-6-2T locomotive 5T.

I'm interested and willing to commit to these MGWR coaches in 4mm: MGWR Atock 6-wheel Brake/Third coach MGWR Atock 6-wheel Third class coach MGWR Atock 6-wheel Lavatory Composite coach MGWR Cusack 6-wheel First class coach MGWR 4-wheel Parcels Van "The Hearse" Should those of us who are interested -- perhaps under the leadership of @GSR 800 -- compile a spreadsheet of individuals who are committing and their requests?

Are you seeking one or more of the Bachmann green RPSI coaches, or one or more of the Irish Railway Models blue and grey coaches?

Rank amateur learner questions: What model paint brands and colors would match GSR maroon and early CIE green? And do any commercially made bogies in 4mm scale match the sideframe design of the GSR Pullman?

See pages 5-12 of the attached magazine from The Pullman Society of the United Kingdom. Etched brass "scratch-aid kits" of the Irish Pullmans might still be available from Worsley Works. (I'm about to follow up on my query of September regarding four I want to order before the proprietor ceases trading.) Pullman_coaches_GSR.pdf

John, thank you for sharing. Beautiful creations. You are a natural teacher with your descriptions of the what, and the why, and what you would re-do differently. -- Martin

What is the seller name or URL for the RPSI ebay shop? I cannot find a link via the RPSI web site shop.

Yes, I would be interested in a MGWR Class A locomotive and tender. I would want to see the design and print quality first, of course. But I'm interested.

James, I once knew very well the places you wish to represent in miniature. So I'm rooting for you. You probably already considered the hard reality that, as much as the real places fascinate us, we cannot reproduce them in miniature. We sometimes, though, can represent those places with the most iconic features. Thinking about the area you're describing, to me, the most memorable features are the Milltown bridge and the valley below. The distance between, say, Milltown and Dundrum is not necessarily a memorable feature. Iain Rice wrote many inspiring, insightful books about representing the real world in miniature. Before him, an American named John Armstrong wrote about model railway design. You might want to spend time immersing yourself in them, if you haven't already. I'm doing the same. You probably are already thinking this, but "selective compression" of a real place into a representative miniature design is what allows us to make something recognizable. You'll also want to think about what you really want your end goal to "feel like." Do you want to run model trains from one end to the other, recreating Harcourt Street Station to Foxrock (or Dundrum)? Or might you want to represent the feeling of the railway line, perhaps by having an around-the-room set of relatively narrow modular layout sections (perhaps 12 inches to 18 inches deep), where the train leaves Harcourt Street Station, crosses Milltown bridge and the river valley, then pulls into Dundrum, then perhaps circles back past your terminus? I look forward to your creative exploration.

IRM's news about the 800 locomotives motivated me to reserve one model of each locomotive. Three Irish steam locomotive models. The largest single purchase of railway models I've ever done, but well worth it to support such an important project.

John, heartiest good wishes to your wife, your 15-year-old, your mother-in-law, and you. Martin

Try offering them to Mayo Books in Castlebar: https://www.mayobooks.ie/ Or Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway: https://charliebyrne.ie/ Someone who's not on this web board will run across them and benefit from them. I frequently buy certain "common" Irish railway books and magazines from independent book sellers in Mayo, Galway, Clare, Limerick. I'm near Chicago in the States, so "common" in Ireland is non-existent here. Another idea: the Cavan & Leitrim Railway preservation group in Dromod. Darragh Connolly is deeply involved.

United States: no. "Cheap" is not a value associated with ready-to-run models of Irish railways. If something has a value, then it also has a cost. Either the cost is invested with money, or the investment is time and skill.

Accurascale account email received, and set up, all the way out here in the U.S. Midwest. Looking forward to a rake of Park Royals later this year, whenever they come. IRM truly is "the next level in Irish railway modelling."

Might anyone on the IRM web board be interested in modelling historic U.S. and Canadian electric railways of the early 1900s through the 1960s in HO or 1:48 O scale?

Ah, only seeing now -- from the South Side of Chicago -- that Jonathan presented yesterday. LNERW1, your backup choice was not in vain.

@Gabhal Luimnigh@Colin R

PM sent.

There is no emoticon to depict "the ability to exist in a state of more or less endless annoyance at the world."

Agree. Just ordered a rake of four green coaches.