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Evening lads, A small update this evening sees SSMs Sulzer kit and an M class bus ready for the paintshop with some minor finishing work to be done over the weekend.

About time you came on board Paul....your welcome....another valuable and skilled modeller on here.....

Great work Kieran, Ger and Eamonn, I'm watching this project with interest as I received my Sulzer kit off Des and the Deltic chassis off Seamus G over the last few days and can't wait to make a start on it, Keep up the good work lads.

According to the book-"Rails around Dublin"by Donal Murray,the section on Inchicore shows a photo of a wrecked 145 with a photo of the rebuilt 145 below that, 146 demolised the buffer stop at Tralee station about 15 years ago on arrival from Mallow early one morning while hauling the liner/mail-ending up on Rock street, 186+144 were hauling the Knock special to Claremorris in September 1988 when they ran into some cattle that were being herded across the line,derailing both locos, 185+187 ran away for a short distance on the Rosslare line about 10 years ago, 152 developed a brake defect while travelling light engine from Inchicore to Athlone a few years ago and passed a signal at danger,the driver needing a new pair of boxer shorts after that one ....Most of the 141/181s were withdrawn within a few weeks of that incident happening, 211 was the loco involved in the Knockcroghery derailment in November 1997, 202 collided with the rear of a timber train wagon which was fouling the loop road at Ballinasloe-the first 201 to suffer accident damage.

Des, I'll take five off you please.

Nice work Sean-well done,the Fert wagon looks great.

Kieran-Your layout just keeps getting better and better with every instalment-simply superb scenes,well done. :tumbsup:

No Vincent,I worked out of Ballina station,so I know the yard and Ballina branch and Mayo line like the back of my hand.

Did any of the As, Hunslets, or big GMs carry the same type of modification when running on cross-border links? No-as the majority of freight services were worked by the 141/181s locos,the modification was only done to a small number of them.

David's photos were taken shortly after a set of new hand points were laid into place, The points replaced a life expired set that were there since the yard was remodelled for the Asahi traffic in 1977, and had been electrically operated from the signal cabin until the introduction of the Mini CTC system in Mayo 2007, The new points were built over a couple of weeks further up the yard,(where the red and white industrial building are)-and were lifted into place by the excavator in the photo along with another one.

Eamonn,the curved section of the headlight that were fitted to some of the 141/181 locos were used when the locos operated any cross border services, If in the event of any delay or potential hijack to the train,then it was easily identified from an army helicopter overhead as the headlight beam would shine upwards. I think there were possibly six locos that were fitted,not sure of the numbers.

Thanks Raiier,Will Definatly be a lot better on an orange 071...

Looking forward to these releases, they look great.

Thanks gentlemen for your comments, Here are three more that I gave a light weathering to using the Humbrol weathering powder, The first is sound fitted loco 077 077 works back to the running shed after working the autoballaster. Bogie bulk cement wagon 33006 after a light dusting of weathering powder. M class bus on a local service crosses the Overbridge- on Tara Jctn,the wheels have been lightly weathered.

Anto,it was my first time using the weathering powder and I found it brilliant to work with, After finishing the weed-sprayer,I gave a light weathering to an 071,201 a few M class buses and the bogie bulk cement wagons and I'm very happy with the results.

Certainly is an excellent job-look forward to the repainted and the full set of wagons.

I gave the weed spraying equipment in coach 3187 a test this morning-and it worked...!!! I used some Humbrol weathering powder to get the white spray effect on the train, Weedspray coach 3187. The rest of the Spray train. That spray gets everywhere...!!!

Superb photos there Hunslet of a unusual train, And great attention to detail-well done.

Excellent work,very impressive loco shed,well done.

Thanks for your comments lads, Here is a video of operations earlier this evening, 177+175 haul the weedsprayer Train through Tara Jctn station, 082 hauls the CIE Mk3s-(really need the Supertrain 071s for that train), 234 hauls the IWT liner......Enjoy.

A fellow Mayo man-your welcome to the site Tom.

Done.

Still in use Stephen and should be doing a tour of the IE network over the next few weeks, It's known as the Track recording vehicle,it has onboard measuring equipment which detects any cracks or faults with the track, Yes the HO version certainly makes a decent rendition of the real thing-and a great track cleaner in those awkward places on the layout.