Horsetan

Let us know how that goes. There's one item in his Irish standard gauge that I think I might be able to justify this time round.....

Is Allen still taking orders while he waits for a buyer? I notice his website hasn't changed!

Would be better if the Backwoods loco kits were around to haul the things....

Sorry to hear this. Condolences to his family. He leaves the world of Irish railway modelling an incredible legacy and it is to be hoped that his work will not be squandered by those who succeed him. Requiescat in pace. May God be with him always.

Just after picking mine up. God Almighty, the box is huge; looks bigger than the one for the IRM "A". Will see how the rewheeling to P4 goes. Seems someone tried to rewheel one to EM a while ago, and made a mess of it.... https://youtu.be/20fpA6CE1ho?si=TE5jsjh79ZvvP7SS

Not too far south, given that he already owns a golf club in Clare...

To be fair, that's probably already happening

There is a school of thought in Ireland - mostly amongst those who will always loathe the British and would do anything to undermine them - that the Russians should be invited to set up military bases in Ireland. That way Ireland gets to have serious military hardware on its soil without having to pay for it (always a plus), and also gets to keep the British on their toes.

It was probably no.18 in that case. It was reported in the heritage news at the time.

They also reportedly got into trouble for using one of the railcars without Council permission.

I'm not sure there were any drawings. Any that did exist may have been disposed of when old records were being cleared out.

Would be a gas to have a 3D-print Sambo as well

Manning Wardle type driving wheels are available from Alan Gibson Workshop, as are universal coupling rods, so "all it needs" is a chassis to match if the wheelbase is known...

I thought it sounded familiar. When I was there, I didn't actually carry a wallet. I kept some cash hidden in one of my socks....

This wouldn't be Rome, would it? We had a bag taken from under our nose in 2014, near the Spanish Steps....

I remember a feature long ago, in the 1979 Model Railway Constructor Annual, which described a dual-purpose layout that could run either UK-outline stock, or SNCF. It was the French part I was interested in, as some of the locomotives were built from baked bean tins, a remarkably effective technique with corrosion seemingly not a problem.

Dave Basford's further updated etch list attached. the etch list latest 16.02.26.pdf

I think I might still have the remains of some TCR racing sets in the attic. They might be alright for spares donors.

I had an Aurora set in the early 1980s - the police-themed "Chase & Race", which was a knock-off of the Matchbox "Race & Chase" but without the U-turn function.

Ingenious system, yet crude. It was of its time, using the technology of that time.

The immediate problem with slot car systems is the jackrabbit acceleration and speeds, making them unsuitable for use as a working background for model railways. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Faller did produce a slot-car system in HO, similar to the later Aurora racing sets, which was remarkably comprehensive. Didn't catch on, though. Nowadays, you have the current Faller Car System, or DCCar (an industry in itself) or even remote control in 1:87.

Example here - seems to be a zinc flux, but doesn't actually say which metals it will work on, other than copper.

Going somewhere less feral?

He is doing another run in the next two months. Just after getting a reply from him.

That's it, I'm in. I'm just after sending Tommy an e-mail. Hope he sees it.