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getting this topic back on track, I have just received no.475. It was the one of if not thee last ones left been sitting on this locomotive for a year now and considering there won’t be any F6, Bandon’s, J26, st.molaga, argadeen or Baldwin tank engines being made anytime soon in RTR, might as well get it. I remember first learning of this locos existence and being confused. I think it’s only duties was branchline work and maybe it worked cork-clonakikty a few times Despite the GSR grey being plain as per prototype. The brass peices are beautifully done. The loco weighs a lot more then the A class. The locomotive Dosnt re-invent the wheel with its performance the loco also dosnt like going round corners with some screw in the connecting rods being to tight or something. I might try and look at this later

I’m tempted myself to do an SSM J26 kit, would J72 chassis really fit underneath the kit build?

TMD/SSM completed E class/J26 00 gauge with no W&T style extended coal bunker. Preferably in GSR grey or a black livery.

Perhaps “Rails to Northport” and “Rails to Dugort” is in order

Just there the Irish railway record society has put Joe st ledger footage of 184 in that livery running on Inchicore open day 1970 for anyone interested

Such an interesting preservation history! Too bad there is a good chance she won’t return to service even in my lifetime.

My favourite of 184s “fictional” liveries is seen here with the “lined CIE green”

Which would be the more common or popular tender type on the rebuilt J15?

I think anyone modelling that period can justify a belfaire J15 i wonder what the story with the tender is going to be. Surely they won’t use 186 current tender as I don’t think that’s an authentic J15 tender but rather a 400 or 500 class tender or something like that hence making 186 impossible unless a completely new tooling for a different tender was made? I could be wrong and that could be a j15 tender

From what I have heard, there is a high chance it could be a J15, but the rebuilt version

I think there was a DWWR loco sold the the CMDR even in the early days before grouping GSR grouping, never mind after it…. if you see a young fella walking around the premier rose cap in hand, don’t ask

Perhaps the lough class are a very pheasable locomotive with UTA and a small bit of RPSI service to help boost sales of an SLNC locomotive the only reason the low demand CBSC loco was produced was that certain peices were identical to certain pieces of an LSWR saddle tank. Perhaps 461 could fill out DSER NCC U2? BCDR Baltic or Atlantic tanks?

Does Lough Erne have a 00 gauge kit available? i know it’s widely available Already but I’m slightly holding out on a MGWR J26 or an F6 2-4-2

Mine is still in the post, it seem the second I announced I would be interested in one, the all sold out! what you have there is one of the last 1st hand J24 models ever sold I reckon it’s not too far out of anyones 2ft rule to say these survived until 1960 with the GSR choosing to stick with them rather then giving up on them imedeatly For those who are sorry to miss out on the cute Irish saddle tank, as many are when it comes to these locos (I see many who’d love to have a j-15 or Ug class) I might as well say it here, but the chaps at 00 works have assured me that…..another Irish locomotive is on the way from 00 works! It hasn’t been announced just yet what they plan to make, Hopefully it isn’t another CB&SCR locomotive otherwise I will literally have too go in debt

I have let Joe know that Leslie is still very much in operation.

As said above Recently I was told that A30 was actually one of the few A class locomotives to venture onto the west cork making A30 in silver the first West Cork locomotive ever produced by IRM….or MM for that matter In anticipation of a certain little steam engine arriving ice set up the ring for running the little loco in. Im running 479 with the fictional coaches (Ex-LNER) , 121 with CIE “laminate” (br mk1 respray) coaches and silverfox C212 with Milipeade Bulleid wagons, resprayed Oxford LNER cattle wagons and JM design breakvan. I’m still in the stages of planning a layout although this will undoubtably be crossbarry/ Kinsale junction with a bit of artistic licence (with it being set in 1962, the kinsale branch being open and perhaps even the quarry branch being open). This will likely include 3D printed buildings, platforms ect. With the fictional coaches being the main kinsale branch coaches along with 479 being the only rebuilt locomotive from the collection of CB&SCR Dubs and Neilson/Breyer peakock 4-4-2T locomotives with perhaps more accurate coaches and better suited rolling stock to replace it when they become available. FullSizeRender.mov

It is Blackrock. This would have been just under 30 years after closure I have a photo of Ballymartle which taken a similar time after it’s closure and it looks much the same Of course this is now part of the passage greenway and could become part of the “Cork Luas”

“That would be an Ecumenical matter”

How about the brown coloured ones, I saw a few of them in my locality?

In light of this evenings Irish railway record society’s Munster branch presentation this evening….I already have a question lined up!

It appears my plea for advice on this loco this should put me head of marketing because the couple of things and engines they had left are sold out. Even the 2 left that were being sold pre owned on eBay are gone….. good to see the CB&SCR loco travelling far away as America

I got a p&t one off sean brown in castlerea. He had a mighty collection of them too.

Many of them stabilisers look like that. There are ones around my in ballinhassig that don’t look a day old the insulators that pe-date P&T are very valuable as the ones marked GPO are interchangeable with ones used in the UK and are rare

In relation to age, I think that the demand for loco hauled models won’t completely evaporate. But it will significantly lower as the years go on. I go out of my way often to go on loco hauled trains on the cork-Dublin line as much as possible, even though the windows in the mk 4 sets give me a headache! kit building is still kinda out of reach for me. I have started a bandon tank but can’t finish it, and the finesse on that model isint up to standerd with anything I have already. when I got into Irish modelling years ago. I started with C212. Which you can order at any time you want, no searching fleabay for pre owned overpriced stuff. at the time it was a huge suprise that anything that ran on the West Cork railway was RTR as by that stage, I was only aware of murphy’s products. part of me wishes that silverfox A class locos were consistently 2 or 3 on eBay going for less then €100. Same with the Lima 201s and the MIR kits because they would be respectively great ways to get into this hobby without having a 2nd morgage! coaching stock is a little to expensive for my taste when it comes to silverfox, even back then. However I wouldn’t mind getting a tin van off them as I said earlier another member of the budget RTR family is milipeade on adverts who does very good Irish cement pallet wagons and bulleid open wagons. Also doing a few coach ranges for 30-50 euros in conclusion, knock them all you want. But the demand is clearly there for silverfox or milipeade to make these more barebones models RTR even in 2022

Luckily it’s easy to convert if you have the confidence and talent to make a 21mm layout. Hugely rewarding when pulled off