Westcorkrailway

Weather that day was even better then it is today.....saint patrick must've known photography was of importance!

Happy st patricks day everyone! The day where being irish is worth celbrating! But of course some memorable days down the years have taken place down through the years like the IRRS excursion trains. Of course 60 years since the IRRS excursion to my own West Cork https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=257493226007497&id=106687211088100

Indeed......3 car sets would be the max on my layout!

And as ive said, theyll make it black if you ask for it. Any specifications to the livery you like they will modify which is great. May not compare in quality to MM or IRM but there willingness to specially make orders for you and make it RTR outweighs the benifits for most. The fact they re-tooled the railcars to be more realistic and are working on fixing the sulzer tooling shows they really do care Not to mention without them there is no sulzers, AEC railcar, C Class, G class or D class RTR options for those of us who struggle with the soldering iron (Picture from excellent bantry layout on another thread showing the new re-tooled railcar. Must admit the light grey looks roof looks horrendous in this one!!!)

Yep.....i ordered mine september last year and ill get it september this year.......they take a long time to make hence why i said "on order"!!!

Beutiful livery on them. I have one of the new tooling ones on order in green.

There isn't an awful lot of space to put things like an engine shed. Something that might fit in though are telephone poles like these ones in the picture *albeit there a bit overgrown*. They can be either home made or bought on the WWW but i always think they bring atmosphere to a layout. Maybe cows in the feild, a water tower for steam locos, signal box, level crossing, home-made fencing along the track....there deffinettly is a few things you can do with it

Realistically you can take any 4 or 5 plank wagon, slap a flying snail on it and hey presto....rolling stock You can paint them (as you have) for extra points! But of course. The bullied open wagons are the best of the best

5th years go back to school on mondag I can help promote through my page, might be able to "volunteer" too

My father would call an 0-6-0 a triple axle train!

Apologies......im still used to counting axels rather then wheels! the larigue engine is an 0-3-0

So your suggesting a picture of the prototype in a place and then showing a picture of the model What i will say is that it would work if you showed pictured of lines that dont exist so people interested in there local history would then want one! Also i recomend making a group of people wanting to use it. Give them the login details and let various people work off the same account...but of course such a operation would have to be kept very private!

On that size layout, 3 or 4 is the max size of a train i would think. Thats also why I think 3 wheelers would work well on that layout, there just the right size. If your imagination sees them as irish rolling stock, then they are simple as

Its an idea, however the numbers it would gather would be minimal compared to facebook for example IRM themseves have 271 followers on instagram compared to 2.2k on facebook West Cork Railway Colourised Has 746 followers on instagram compared to 2.8k on facebook And despite the fact that instagram is run by facebook. There are huge differences between the two. One of the most annoying things about instagram for myself is that you cannot individually caption photos, one caption fits all!

The attitude of myself coming into modeling is to start with anything RTR and work from there. My first irish model was the silver fox C class. From there i put silver fox railcars on order as there the 2 big RTR west cork models (unfortunately none of IRM or MM offerings ran on the west cork except for the BnT 141s which only ran in albert quay and aren't readily abailble pre owned and the A class.....which ran all but twice!) Rolling stock is usually converted dapol wagons with flying snails slapped on the side and given a lick of paint! While silver fox offer flying snail cars 75 pounds a pop is a bit expensive. I only see myself buying one for railcar use. There is an RTR brakevan on the way if course which i look at licking my lips and those 3 wheel coaches.....they look like a decent conversion. Locos that need some converting like my other young west cork modeller include a j26 out of a j72 and a beautiful GSWR no. 34 out of a LNYR 2-4-2. 3D modeling has already given is number 90, i hope more models come abailble this way as its wayyy more accesable then conversions and kits From the kits are abailble from SSM. Like the MGMR j26 and of course the bandon tank. (Which i have but haven't touched and probably wont for years.....and i made the mistake of not buying thre gearbox or wheels ect!) However none if us have nowhere near what is required yet to do brass kits, i have only soldered wires together as of now! Can I also suggest using instagram? My West Cork Railway Colourised page uses both platforms and while Facebook one is more popular, more young people tend to use instagram. A few have tried and failed....the only way it could work is if that instagram page happens to have a stream of pictures if other layouts to post consitantly! (All credited to there respected owners of course) as groups dont really work on instagram. it would have to be a page

When people love a particular engine engine so much. They will want an 0 gauge one as ita the bees knees in detail and size is cool! .....and then as they have an 0 gauge engine they just start buying rolling stock and a layout just because......why not they already have a loco and hey presto....and there you have it. My theory on how 0 gauge is starting to rise

To be fair 00 guage is just more practical as thats the standered gauge for modeling really. Most people on this forum that would be interested in an ICR would want it 00 gauge first and formost. Not to mention that if a kid wanted to expand his layout (say he wants a 201 class as they are also still in use in the mainline) there isint irish N gauge stuff to expand

It would have to be marketed wayyyy differently to models have before. if this were to happen and the target demographic were to be to get new blood into irish modeling. Then unironically smyths and argos and all these sort of places would need to be also retailers. I remember the first time i realised i could buy a realistic train set that was not my thomas the tank engine layout was a virgin pendelino and the eurostar in the argos catalogue...and I ended up buying one and that was when I was about 7. The key to appealing to that audience is advertise it as high speed (yep). The fact they might recodnise the train may also help in this case.

What I Would do to expand from that (good to hear that you have an A Class pre ordered) is picking up an irish mogul from bachmann years ago, re painting a jinty to NCC livery, silverfox G class as there fairly popular in preservation (in green or silver i would like to see!) of course if your into re-spraying you could make a "maebh" or respray some of the new hattons genisis coaches to make cie coaching stock. The skys the limit either this really. one of my west cork freinds turned a LNER j72 into A MGWR J26. While its not completely accurate it doed the job for him with a bit of imagination! There is a new CIE brakevan being released by JM designs which might also suit preservation stock.

Same. I was surfing the web one day and found that somone had made a kit of the bandon tank and a model of a C class. If i hadn't found it by now i would have a fleet of british 0-6-0 s!

So this....... Or this..... or maybe even this...

Im 17 and despite using it on a daily basis for West Cork railway Colourised...J can confirm its antiquated toss to us! YAY my CMDR inspection car dream is finnally coming true!!

Do show how you develop the irish livery......a few of us will take notes for when we do ours!

Better late then never! The IRM A class will be in a different league altogether but we have to commend silverfox for giving us an A class option

I know, twas only shoving a bachmann/MM coach onto a hattons 6 wheel chassis. @Mike 84C has a much better example of what such a coach would look like. Its an interesting one as many who wish for flying snail laminates and park royals would be more then happy to accept these into layouts. I'd buy 3 or 4 for a bandon tank! Im just observing that if these 2 companies are battling out in the 6 wheelers. And more liveries are introduced to sell more of each tooling. Maybe.....just maybe we will see a CIE option. And if not then theyll be re painted into CIE green anyway! My west cork bud has ordered some of the southern varients for this purpose.