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???? This is how I would push/adjust that photo. The photo is low resolution, better results can be achieved with higher resolution files. Eoin

Same here, my impression from this image was pale, pale blue!!

This will give you some idea on inclines and the space required, I have built a few inclines and found 1:30 is about the min 'straight' incline that works- just! all depends on what you are going to run on it...... Having a deep lower track- for scenery, is not possible in limited space. That is why helixes are used but need to be based on large radii, these limit the size of trains, and limits the loco running gear life. Down the rabbit hole....... Eoin

Yes, it can, but requires old style cutting wires, soldering, lighting units replacement for DCC and instillation of live coupler connection to power the rear coach lights.... Electric coupler setup Directional lights and coach lights Completed job. Unfortunately I took very few photos when doing it..... Eoin

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April's Fair Date;-

Very neat..... Eoin

A car turn table!

I'm still working on the same stuff I was on two years ago! 3 no. 800s- Gauge 1 & 0, 850 Gauge O, 2 no. Gauge 1 two car DARTs, are the main projects on the workbench..... https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/forum/52-ecm-model-trains/ But my Mum is all I work on at the moment, she had a number of ailments over the past two years and she is now in a nursing home recovering from a pace-maker instillation and pneumonia. It's very hard to motivate myself to do any workshop stuff at the moment....... Eoin

The National Railway Museum & the Science Museum in the UK have Peckett archives- one could start there. There is also a website archive of UK loco drawings, someone on her may be able to direct you to it. Eoin

Following up on the discussion above about Capt Bligh's diving bell for dredging the river Liffey;- The bell that exists on the Liffey key today is not Bligh's, it was used during the late 1860's to dredge the river bed and to build the deep water port. Designed by Bindon Blood Stoney, a prominent Dublin engineer responsible for many works around the Liffey and chief engineer on the deep water port- Alexandra Basin. The Bell was built by Grendon & Co of Drogheda, which was raised and lowered from a barge built by Harland & Wolff. An amazing looking system;- From 'Bindon Blood Stoney, Biography of a port Enginer' by R.C.Cox ISBN 0904083020 Eoin

I was thinking the same, I wounder what pies they were Eoin

What we all do here is magic, we bash & cajole atoms into jewellery......

No need for a dividing head, use one of these in your mill;- www.arceurotrade.co.uk This unit, the nut and the correct collet mounted in your vice will do the indexing trick on the mill, you will have to do some reference marking to line up the squares when rotating the axle ends...... This collet size is ER25 Eoin