enniscorthyman

That could have been me only in a green van.

Can't be me Dave as I nearly drove van into the Slaney Trying to rubberneck a ballast train near Killurin a number of years ago.

A good postman should always be ready to spot trains.lol

As promised,I poped down to Gerrys Ballybeg last night and got a few shots of His nice collection of 121s.All are MIR resin kits on the newer Athearn SW1500 chassis,and are hand painted.

Captain Picard-my Hero. Make it so!.

The main spring again?or a loose wire in the main core?. Perhaps a tackeoin pulse through the main deflector might help.

Yes Garfield I enjoyed it a great deal too.

Wow love the A class,top marks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvHr6rM9qZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmS-oILQuK0

Lovly stuff there.look forward to seeing your A class finished.

She is a beaut,looks fantastic.

Hi Robert,well the only coach that I can help you with is the mk3 EGV.Studio scale models do the brass overlays for this conversion which include the numbers and roof Detail.The donor coach in normally the BR mk3 sleeper coach but I used a spare Hornby diner.All the rest of my mk3 stock are repaints from Seamus Graham which are nice job.Lima Murphy mk3 make up the rest of the stock. I hope this is some help,and I am sure you will get more advice from the lads on the other coaches.You can view my EGV on page one of enniscorthymans workbench.I posted up on YouTube a video of a friends EGV with a sound chip and lights.

Yes I remember that photo,but it was not good quality, so I hope that next week Ill be down to Gerry and get better shots of his 121s.

Thanks Shem,but no sound chip as there is no room what so ever for a speaker and chip.This loco was hand painted by me with MIR 201 orange.Close up the paint job is not great but I am happy enough with it.I know you have a soft spot for the 121s.

Lovly stuff there Ant. Robert,I will do some photos soon on Gerrys 121. Worth looking for is the june 2011 IRRS journal with a good feature by Brian Solomon on the 121 class with a nice photo of 125 running bonnet first in black and tan livery near Booterstown. Brian also does the 141/181 locos in the june 2010 journal. Here is my own baby 135-

I did mention the 121 class to Paddy back in August,and He did say it will be a few years as He suggested the 071s had taken a number of years to get to the production stage. As regards the MIR version,I have a resin version with a unpowered SW 1500 athearn underneath. Gerry Byrne has a lovely collection of 121s that I must get good photos of.I do remember a single 121 running nose first at Edermine LC near Enniscorthy many years ago.I don't know what the story was,perhaps a breakdown.

Mind yourself Ant,and hope all is well with you. My Caoimhe said she will kill you if you don't get well soon.lol.

You are very welcome Gerhard,and ask away on the questions,thats what we are here for. Eamonn

I think I need to get some sleep,the old head is poor.lol

For some reason to I had it as 072,and its only when I got photos off the external hard drive did I see it was 073.As you said they were very clean The locos that is,and what a brilliant day it was. Such a pity a mk3 set was not kept for days such as that.

Fantastic layout-well done.

It was a fab railtour that day and the sadly the last spin in the mk3s. All that was missing was Heirflick and a bottle of Jemmy. I had forgoten 072 brought us to Limerick, 083 brought us on the next leg. Ant was very happy to watch 083 couple up. While I got up close to 083.

Was it you Ant that I saw hugging 073 at Limerick station when you thought no one was looking!.lol

Thanks Noel,Allison well.Are the 071s settled in on Tara junction yet?.

Some fab photos there,thanks for sharing.