Horsetan

The onboard bag size limit is the biggest scam going.

The name's O'Rea. Gon O'Rea.

Painted numbers? Or the ones cast on locomotive numberplates?

That assumes aviation fuel is available

I took the same approach. Twice.

Similar thing happened to the original 1981 Hornby APT. Values for full sets, individual cars and even spares on eBay ran quite high for a long time. Then Hornby released their 21st century model a few years ago, and values of the 1981 model are on the floor as a result.

The electric drill is an acknowledged emergency method for all oleopneumatic Citroëns

I think OttoMobile (or AutoArt) also produced 1:18 models of my car, the Citroën CX. I've never bought any of these as they were never offered with a right-hand-drive interior. To my eyes, left-hand-drive just looks wrong.

That one is insanity

Nanotechnology potentially makes this possible

What did your CSB measurements come out as?

If you have any Loctite 603 (or even the older 601 if it hasn't gone off), that tends to set much harder than plain superglue.

Did the Tramore line have any signals as such? I don't remember any in the photos I've seen....

One of these, albeit standard gauge rather than Irish standard, was seen on a YouTube video recently, working on a UK preserved line (think it was the Lavender Line at Isfield). Remarkable little machine.

I think one of the preserved USATC S160s (no.2253) has recently been converted to oil firing, so hopefully there'll be some appropriate exhaust. Oil firing can be clean - the Swiss ex-Kriegslok 52.8055 was converted years ago by DLM in Winterthur and is said to be so efficient that it only requires one person to act as both driver and fireman, whilst the cab interior rarely if ever gets dirty. Thing is, no other mainline standard gauge engine seems to have followed the DLM techniques for improved efficiency.