Killian Keane

Shannon is one of my favourite locos, nice Austin Somerset too

I have a feeling 107 Robin will be doing an excursion down that direction at some point regardless!

Only just got round to printing one in MGWR as built condition, my favourite version, worth the wait hopefully!

It was great to see the J26 returned to its rightful place on the W&TR! some day Ill hopefully get you the 2-2-2s to go with it

On my way up now, I have a few in GSR condition with mw

mass production!

Hoping to head up on the Saturday and I'll try and bring along a few J26 samples

My first born J26, I'm off to England to hand it over to its new owner now

In my experience it should print ok as is, making things as separate components I find awkward, I like to minimise joins

The first two variations are finished, the Waterford and Tramore extended cab version is next The cab interior ended up looking like this; in my mind its adequate as its a closed cab loco, you wont see much of it

MGWR E/GSR J26 cab interior coming along

I presume the same class

My latest victim, something uncharacteristically 'modern'

Im quite certain this'll be another tour de force to behold

Manchester South junction and Altrincham Railway no.1, built 1849, a very close relative to the CB&PR tanks The GS&WR had tender versions as their express passenger fleet at the time (note the earlier cast style dome), along with the Bury Curtis and Kennedy locos; ...Just for fun, the original engines of the Jamaica Railway were outside cylinder versions; All the above of course built by the Sharp Brothers /Sharp Roberts/ Sharp Stewart

As-built version of class E almost finished, just to finish off the cab interior, and then its on to the various rebuilds

That model of Alexandra is in the Science Museum in Kensington now, or was about 12 years ago when I was last there

Ive started designing the Atock vacuum pipe, and Im debating whether itd be better to just have it as a piece (or two) of brass rod, this isnt supported anywhere other than where it meets the running board and at the apex of the smokebox where it hinges, itd also be very hard to paint (brass?) the way its routed between the sandbox and smokebox. I might have the hinge printed and have a brass rod meet it at each side, we shall see

Many thanks for those, theyll be very useful, one thing Ive just noticed about the photo of 557 is it still has lamp irons on the rear bufferbeam, a hangover from MGWR days, at least one of the Waterford and Tramore examples also appears to have kept them on the rear

Never before have I had to look at a 2-2-2 through a welding mask

Quite a rare photo, or at least one I had never seen before of old no.36, taken (presumably at Inchicore) about 1890, from The Engineer, January 17th 1896, whats almost as interesting as the loco is the narrow gauge line to the right, I had been unaware Inchicore had such a system, presumably purely hand and horse worked

Is anyone aware of a drawing of the Marconi Railway Dick Kerr loco? as if I hadnt enough to be doing it occurred to me the new Rapido Sirdar or Cranmore chassis for 009 would probably work for this

Its a big ask I know but would anyone have photos of the cab interior of the MGWR E/J26? I cant for the life of me establish whether they were screw or lever reverse and which side that was mounted on etc etc

A class Validation print successful, both MGWR locos now entering the final stages before proper production