Westcorkrailway

Well….there is a lot of waffle before and after that unboxing, he actually gets it out of the box 8 minutes into the video

Referring to murphy models as “they” is ironic I’m sure seeing a supertrain 121 pulling blood and crème teak coaches is a hard pill to swallow for some

It still might be worth the simple spring fox on the rear and front bogey, you might loose traction even on flats over that!

That’s one Irish looking footbridge to be fair to it

And for the record it took Sams trains 4 minutes to open the 121 box…….

Maybe you got lucky with the radials, some get away but most are shocking bad I had the idea of school vs class too, but considering we already have the Woolich in Ireland, I strayed off!

it actually happened!!!

I’m going to say by the looks of my wheels we have two different chassis. Are you going to carry over some elements of the origional and Adams radial shell in the BCDR tank print?

Anyone have a 1900-1917 accounts for the CBSCR handy again this was brought up at a presentation a few years ago…I THINK he said they were stamped on in blue ink if that helps any bit..if I could get a hold of him I would ask where who and how because to be fair to him, he knew what he was talking about. but for now add it to the CMDR tier of Irish railway legends

I would have thaugh that too, no mention of it in his book on the CMDR either. I reckon it’s just a tale….if I’m proved wrong I’d be staggered! Something along the lines of the CB&CSR ordered a pile of sleepers from Russia (obviously sometime before a certain revolution) and some were stamped with the Russian imperial crest

All It’s missing a ford anglia police police car! One of the few British station I came recognise, looks great

What the hell ……I better break out the metal detector I wonder if Chris Larkin, an expert on all things west of the river lee was the one hosting that talk. I remember he told me a lot or west cork sleepers were marked with the Russian imperial stamp

Bit of a silly question, but I came across a story of NIR multiple united being burried rather then scraped due to asbestos, and stories of locos under Inchicore. Basically I want to know what Irish stuff is said to have been buried (understanding that most of these are “stories”)

It may be worth looking at my workbench, I’ve been at the same thing

I’ll be in cork today, might pop into some of those “game shops” @Mike 84Csuggested. Might stick with red enamel paint for the buffer beams

and here is C231 (hiding behind a rather excellent locomotive) in the lighter green, just covered in sump oil and dirt (I think) So must not have worn that dark green for long

I believe A46 was a one of a kind livery. The lighter lined green is at present not represented in the current IRM lineup (I think anyway)

Forget scratch building for time being, I’ve plenty more years to learn that….for now I’m back to basics as ever since re-painted my LNER coaches into CIE green they derail every lap! The theory in my head was 3 coats of enamel paint had fecked up the centre of gravity. so with 10 5c coins And 6 10p coins with help with masking tape, the coaches have stayed on the track for 15 minutes, success many ways back to the topic of spray painting models. Right now I going great with the brush but I understand enamel paint is not going to take to well to an Adams radial….or even a bandon tank some day! now I have done some spray painting years ago. 1 coat and no primer! it’s not the best job but at least I’ve some handle on it

I might paint the brass black just too see how it would look if I just plastered it onto to side, I might as well since I have them

The current plans means that they stick outside the tank, it will be mounted to the loco via the continently square front to the splasher (you can see it in the image below, a pipe needs to be cut and that’s it) and the side of the existing water tank. the only issue then is would the coupling rods hit off the running plate…

Messed around with sheet brass today…..results were interesting considering the lack of tools I have at my disposal. Due to those bloody running plate bumps using brass is not that easy and probobly won’t be the used method, to be fair these were only mock-ups anyway so at least I can leave brass to the kit builders

It could be done, I would worry about the height of the water tank, the Adams radials cab means that pulling this off probably would not look the best. The tank extention I intend to do is the same height. Something more similar to that of 479 and other CBSC 4-4-2t’s

For me it’s like a model of the turf burner. not something that should be mass produced, but it would be the attention puller of any layout it was on

The Lanz Bulldog Tractor had an engine that could run both clockwise and anti-clockwise depending on which direction you wanted to go. It also had a 0 RPM engine (yes an engine can run at 0 RPM)

I’m starting to agree. I think this photo makes the water tanks look far more at home on the loco, and make it look like 479!