Mike 84C

Pm and Pictures sent. Mick.

I believe New Irish Lines Is now all digitised and is/was free to browse, I recall Alan sent out those drawings as photocopies , over several years , some of the copies were a bit iffy( mine were) and not all were scaled. If I'm wrong please please correct me , I think the problem was the distortion that photocopiers can cause. But a shout of thanks to Alan for producing the information.

Going from empty Lincolnshire where very few people live, to crowded then rammed in summer Devon, but its strange how the siren wail of newly baked grandchildren affects the ladies! And we had discussed would we move to Devon a few years ago, naah anywhere but! Just gotta man up. Happy wife happy life! Come on lads help a man out £450 +pp and you get all three.!!

Looks like the memsahib will drag me off to darkest Devon! Who knows when this will happen so I have to shift some stuff! 1 Bachmann passenger train Set. Complete with green k1 2-6-0, 3 Cie livery coaches, track and controller , DC 1 Bachmann k1 2-6-0 "Cherry Blossom" gloss black DCC & sound. Has a strong substitute stock box. 1 Bachmann/Murphy Models Cl 181 CIE Black/Orange cat no; MMO 182. Please pm me if you are interested, remember I live on the big island! And I can send pictures!

The set we had on Bantry had all the problems of wheels dropping out of the bogies, reproduction drive shafts on the bogies dropping off and the sides parted company from the floor on one of the coaches. Some of the parts are made of a type of plastic thats very hard to glue maybe its nylon? And they feel very flimsy. Rather disappointing. Would I buy another? only if the price was right.

I'm thinking about how the cement is extracted from the delivering rail vehicle into the recieving vehicle or silo. Cement is a similar type of product to flour and in the bottom of those tanks there was some type of plate which allowed the product and air under pressure to mix to facilitate delivery. I do not think suction would work difficult to regulate the flow. My only experience of delivering those type of products is animal feeds where a measured amount is dropped into the airflow and blown into a silo. It does need a fair amount of power to do this, its surprising how much power a Rootes blower absorbs.

I finished up painting my American coaches, which are often a shade of Tuscan, with a rattle can of Ford Damask Red and I think they look the db's.! Broithe, get yourself to the optician! Been there and done that.

I have been a member of an American group, for a lot of years!, having an interest in the Colorado Midland which closed after WW1. But we had on going discussions about colour from every aspect. My conclusion is we will all see the same colour slightly differently so my stock will be the right colour and yours well, the jury's out! In Back Track vol34 No2 For feb 2020 there is an article Irish Diesel traction by David Moseley worth having for the 6 colour photos. All green and yet more shades in the melting pot!

glazing the B101 tops my list of tedious modeling jobs!

Mol, you could try Revell SM364 which I used on my diesels, or Humbrol gloss No3 which is darker.Bare in mind I have weatherd the C & A classes

I know Lanarkshire Models has sold his business to ? but if you know who that maybe a line of oppertunity? Lanarkshire buffers were 1st class. Or maybe killian Keene of this parish could print them for you?

Although all my conversions run on Peco code 75

I did this on a Hornby J69, one of those North British tanks, a few years ago. Its probably a bit too big but I thought it looked the part and was not expensive.

That is brilliant! and photos using natural light is inspired.

One word, Superb!! I am biased, i rather like the PP and PG.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that EMD painted the 121's Louisville & Nashville colours. And they do look very similar. But why do that?

The weigh bridge office looks to be in the right position in relation to the actual bridge. It would also maybe be an admin office for transport functions as well as weighing. That's what my office was like at RHM.

Thanks for putting up that trucknet link I spent far to long trawling through it! visiting mills I had been to! There are two photos of Ranks Ireland trucks which seem to be white with blue wheels and mudguards.

Mol, if you are interested in mills have a look at Sligo Heritage facebook pages. Wonderful photos of Ballysodare Mills, I love the flying cupboards ! The AEC,s would look good in CIE green.

Transport operators on "Big Island" were very conservative in their buying policies, mainly until they discovered Volvo and Scania and we all know what followed! Having driven a few of those foreign offerings I believe the Leyland/AEC ergonomic cab offered better visibility and driver seating position than most competition. Notice I did not mention noise levels or heating in winter or the other driver comforts that the chaps liked!

If you check out the Road Transport Images web site they do lots of resin chassis/cabs/ bodies to make up almost any British marque from pre war to the 2000's . Not cheap but nice models. An S type Bedford tanker from RTI parts built by me. Needs a few detail bits before its complete.

Mol, I like the captive nuts idea, on Bantry I used bolts and wingnuts OK but a bit tedius having to level the bb tops every time we exhibited.

Mashima in my Bandon tank runs perfectly, with a High level gearbox and I have used the plunger pickups in the kit. Bought as a bundle from SSM.

You have used the aluminum angle for the running rails that I/we used on Bantry. If making cassettes again I think I would lay track on the cassette. Lining up always seemed a problem so a cause of derailments! Maybe the greater mass of 7mm makes the system work better or maybe it was something else.

Glad to see Bantry getting an outing and it performed after the shaky start. Been there done that! Keep up the good work lads! Mick.