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Horsetan
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One thing I would say about the appearance of Irish gauge track is that, outside the city/suburban areas, rail often looks quite corroded, so you'll need a decent orange/brown mix. As for gauge, my view is that it should be 21mm if you're lucky enough to be starting from scratch. 5'3" is simply too wide for anything else to look correct.
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New name, same staff....
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Not much different from how Herpes and other couriers handle deliveries, so maybe not that remarkable
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"They never ran like that" (Ballast train fun)
Horsetan replied to Niles's topic in What's happening on the network?
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Going Spanish/Indian gauge?
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Dunno. Marcos Sr. ran a pretty corrupt operation until 1986, and I'm sure his son will be doing much the same
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What I'd like to track down are the RPSI Cravens pack.
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Might not be a good idea now that there's a Marcos back running the show. He'll be every bit his father's son. And his mother's still pulling the strings.
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India. Good luck with that.
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Nobody seems to have offered those beet wagons as a guess. As to the next powered model, who knows? Would be grand to see something steam outline, though. Something along the lines of a J15, mqybe.
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It occurs to me that 1963 was probably the last time we saw the Irish network at anything like full strength in terms of track layout before the system began to be run down / shut down / mothballed / lifted. I'm particularly interested in the miniature "pointer" colour light signal shown at 49.43/45. Belfast York Road famously had a number of these miniature signals, mostly on the entry/exit gantry, but very few photos have ever been published of them close up. Hardly anywhere else was equipped with them.
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When the news broke, I thought we were getting the Return of Triang.
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It seems to me that TT, pound for pound, works out more expensive than HO.... Not by much, but the price tags are still sobering.
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It may have been heading for Australia
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...and yet people will take it as fact.
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Tillig were long time leaders in Continental TT for many years. Roco also invested millions in the scale.
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I'm only surprised it hasn't had rainbows painted all over it already.
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I'm looking at that apparently continuous engine handrail and trying to work out how they managed to open the smokebox door for cleaning....
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Emperor's New Clothes. You own it, but you don't own it. Smoke and mirrors. It could disappear if someone presses the wrong button.
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You could. Either: 1. The bottom will drop out of the market; or 2. The eBay floggers will continue to buy up stock in order to protect values (see Prototype Deltic and LU S-stock above)
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Now you know why people buy more than one of each model. One to keep, the rest to flog on for a quick buck.... That's what happened to Bachmann's NRM Prototype Deltic, and the London Underground S-stock.
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I think this view shows that flush glazing would help the overall look. IFM seem to have had a difficult time recently. They had a website for a while which then went down. Then the only way you could buy anything was via their Farcebook shop ...which then meant having to join Farcebook just to buy IFM stock. I remember buying a Laminate kit this way, but can't remember where I put it. Now they have a website again, but seem to have stopped making Park Royals and Laminates. I'm never entirely sure what's going on.
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S coupling rods drilled out to 1.5mm bores for crankpins
Horsetan posted a gallery image in Member Albums
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Jaysus, realised that it's coming on to six years since I did anything "S"-related. Have unearthed the chassis parts, but now can't remember where I put the body.... Anyhow, the coupling rods were drilled 1.5mm, this being the nominal diameter of standard crankpins. They will be eased out a little further to allow a running fit.
