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Horsetan
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I think I need another sight test anyway, but there's definitely something going on with the two cab fronts; they look different to each other.
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Deleting history (and people) is fashionable
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This reminds me of the type of colour scheme that might once have been found in India. Or possibly Bulgaria.
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A 3d printed 800 class for 00 (and a WLWR goods loco)
Horsetan replied to Killian Keane's topic in Irish Models
I've no complaints about the general design of the kit, and although slightly unconventional in parts (the bogie assembly, for example), it seems to allow you to modify to a degree. -
Nothing a bit of good oul-fashioned smuggling couldn't solve....
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What were the dimensions of the real thing? It might be worth widening the model.
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As built, no.6's cab is very LNWR in style
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Hmm...
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As has been said elsewhere on this Forum, it seems to be a very Irish thing to support all these things....so long as someone else is paying for it! The viaduct at Newport is what would make any model of the place - without it, a Newport layout might well become nondescript.
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I'll have to read the book again to be sure, but I think the original premise was: - to bring tourism to Achill; - to develop Achill Sound as a port - especially for cross-Atlantic traffic; and - encourage expansion of fishing, with the daily catch going onwards by rail. Highly ambitious in those early days of hope (and not a little fantasy, as things turned out)
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Difficult choice of locations, though: Westport: most operationally interesting with a junction to the Quay Line plus the "main" route over Altamont Street bridge Newport: fairly cramped site, plus the challenge of the Seven Arches viaduct and two small connecting bridges either side, and St. Patrick's above the station. Mulrany: high up on the hillside, with the possible need to replicate the Great Southern Hotel on the adjacent site below Achill Sound: needs space for the sea around it, I'd have thought....
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Any news?
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Any movement since September?
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Aha. In that case, I'll refrain from signing up for one of Leslie's re-run.
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Did any of these spoil wagons make it into preservation?
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An achievement never to be realised
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Ah, I was there, so. Was on the Adavoyle operating team that year. That was in 2001, and I actually heard the roof canvas give way and dump quite a lot of water onto one of the stands. Messy.
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That's the other aim, as I have a CIE snack car here
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I'm going to see if these can be fitted to the Murphy / RPSI Mk2 trio
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Which year was that?
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Just after buying 4 sets of B4 bogies...
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Just when you thought coaches could not get dearer, or more beautiful
Horsetan replied to leslie10646's topic in News
Now you know how Continental HO modellers have coped for years. A decent RTR German Einheitslok 4-6-2 is now the best part of £350 to £400, whilst the kit equivalent (Weinert) is 1100 Euros-plus. Coaches are getting on for £100 to £150 each. UK modellers are only catching up with the kind of prices Europe has long been paying. -
A telltale pool on the floor by the toilet bowl?
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I think that's going to need some 4mm scale food and drink to go in there....
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I wonder if I could use Guinness as a fuel additive?
