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  1. Horsetan
    To misquote Father Ted: "These engines look black, but when I looked closely, they were actually very very very very very very VERY dark grey...."
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    That's now the only colour photo of 560 I have seen! By then the smokebox door handles had been replaced by a wheel and handle arrangement. The curious thing about the smokebox wrapper is that it has visible rivets along the leading edge, but none at the rear where it joins the boiler barrel. I have a b&w one of it on what seems to be the same railtour day, attached to a tin van, plus another later b&w of it out of service at Cork. Coincidentally 560 is the one I'm building out of the old TMD kit.
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    Wasn't 560 (with the enlarged cab) the last J26 in service? I've only ever seen black and white photos of it, but each photo has minor detail changes.
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    We had a James Galway LP for years. Bought the thing at Woolworths. £4.99.
  5. Horsetan
    All this paint discussion reminds me of:
  6. Horsetan
    You don't have to go straight in, but approach from the side - the tool would be cranked like a dentist's mirror.
  7. Horsetan
    Maybe having fixed magnet positions isn't the solution. How about a magnet mounted on a handheld spade-type device that you slip under the couplings only when you need it?
  8. Horsetan
    Brian is brilliantly mad. He has worked in P4 and P87, but decided that Märklin's MiniClub Z-gauge was much too rough, so he came up with Proto-220. That's finescale Z, with correct clearances through pointwork and wheels turned down to correct width and flanges. He brought a demo P220 board to one show years ago, and all the pointwork worked flawlessly. This was in the days when my eyes could still focus on things that small. Completely mad.
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    Heljan did do some work for Hattons including, as it happens, the Beyer Garratt. You only need one motor in most engines, but the question is what type? Coreless motors - which are only now finding their way into RTR products - are more efficient but they do have to be matched to the job. You can't just stick any old coreless in there and expect it to take the abuse.
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    Will you be installing any signalling at all?
  11. Horsetan
    Saddle tank design is distinctive - is it a Neilson?
  12. Horsetan
    They outlasted the equivalent Great Eastern E4/T26 2-4-0s by about 4 years.
  13. Horsetan
    There's some very interesting footage in that website, including film of the County Donegal around the time of closure. I'd never seen film of the shunting tractor Phoenix moving until now....
  14. Horsetan
    They seem to have been widespread. There's at least one photo of a 650 taking the road to Ballina at Manulla Junction, when the station buildings still existed.
  15. Horsetan
    Signal spectacle plate design looks remarkably close to the type used by the Caledonian Railway, probably produced by Stevens & Co.
  16. Horsetan
    Probably try again some other time
  17. Horsetan
    'Tis only money.... *shrugs*
  18. Horsetan
    Auction fever!
  19. Horsetan
    If he didn't, it'll probably reappear on eBay for twice the price
  20. Horsetan
    Your parcel is probably bigger than mine, as I had no duty to pay...
  21. Horsetan
    Arrived! Kit looks excellent; even has 28mm pinpoints, so I can use them for my Ultrascale 12mm disc wheels
  22. Horsetan
    It's like classic cars - you get some that seem to have no purpose other than for flipping on at ever more fantasy figures.
  23. Horsetan
    To misquote a Michael Jackson lyric: "I'm looking at the man in a hurry..."
  24. Horsetan
    That looks like the upperworks - the cab, tanks and footplate - were intended for a standard gauge engine with a higher-pitched boiler, and adapted for narrow-gauge use.
  25. Horsetan
    One of the very few photos to show the "pointer light" subsidiary signals governing the entrance to York Road. There's never been quite enough information about them, or close-ups showing them in operation, so anything like this is welcome.
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