Mike 84C

I am not an expert or skilled scratch builder, already quite a few on IRM but I can only surmise the front bogie does not play a major role in supporting or steering the loco. Which is how my Bandon Tank works and it rarely derails, usually with a hamfisted driver at the controls. From my point of view Horsetan you seem to be choosing a difficult pathway, best of luck and I would love to see your B1a running before I popmi clogs!

Sounds like the same design as used for the Bandon Tank. I made mine with a piece of lead between the axle and frames, it works well. Only way I could see to improve it would be a longer link pivoting at both ends and/or a soft conical spring that used to come in the American Tyco loco kits. If the csb springing has 33.3% on each driving axle where is the weight for the bogie going to come from?

Hi J-Mo, she looks the part very good. If you decide to print off some smokebox doors I'm in the market for at least three!

Not a Bandon 0-6-0t but I priced up a No 90 from Shapeways/Rue d'Etropal design and I thought it rather expensive after all the add on's from the basic price plus a Terrier chassis. Then consider can I/you get a good finish on the printed body? I took a rain check on that one.

As a non facebook person, thanks for posting ! the wait was worth it! Super, brilliant and I very much like the seventh picture with the light catching the coach roof's.

Just been studying the mill photos, the one which shows the wagons by those "hoods" if you look closely there appears to be the bottom of a chute from the mill which has a small horizontal platform. I have used something similar where the bags come down the chute and drop onto the little platform at about the right height for a man to lean back, pick the sack up and carry it on his back. All mills have/had a weighbridge facility, never been to one that would accept a vendors weight ticket! Often the cause of disputes between buyer and seller! Milling a trade beset with artful dodgers!

I wonder how many of us on this thread read S&DJR and thoughts of a well known cross country line in the south of England spring to mind? I know I do!

Those are fantastic photos of the mill and quay area's. I know nothing of the Irish milling industry but spent 30+ yrs in the English milling industry. I think judging by the type of elevators shown the wagons will be bringing in product to be made into flour or cattle/animal feeds. I say this because behind the vans & against the mill wall is what looks like a short elevator known over here as a "bag" elevator and the sacks would have been emptied into a small hopper to feed it. The coaster is I believe being emptied by a vacuum evacuator or it could be an enclosed belt and cup elevator. I think maybe the latter, I cannot get enough magnification on my machine. A descent shoo in for the building could be the Walther's Red Wing mill kit, its deffo the right style if a little small but that may work well on your layout. Those white sacks in the MGWR convertibles look like 2-1/4cwt sacks thats 252 lbs or 18 stones per sack. Pretty fit old boys back in the day! If you want to metericate 2.2 lbs = 1 kg.

An Accurascale Deltic landed here on our club test track Wednesday night. So silent it should be called a "stealth" all you could hear was the click of the wheels over the rail joints. Amazing! If Accurascale can produce such quality for the price, it does beg the question, why can't others?

Madness!

Full of promise and much more story telling. I shall look forward to the tales from Dugort Harbour. I can hear waves lapping against a quay already.

Lots of variables in mpg figures, the drivers foot playing the biggest part and that is using any kind of energy. That electric Kia Niro range, roughly equates to 346 miles @ say 55mpg = 6.3 galls derv, using local Lincolnshire diesel prices would cost £ 51.28. Governments will be quite happy to let fossil prices keep rising because their tax take gets larger. But when that starts to go down because drivers buy EV's just watch the price differential change. We will pay through the nose via increased electricity costs and road pricing plus probably high charges to recycle your worn out batteries. It will be a money spinner for somebody! And here on big island there is no way of distributing the electricity needed let alone generating it. I see a u turn on targets to get rid of IC engines. I'm not a politician so what would I know.

I just been shopping in my 07 2.0 Diesel Skoda Est. 66.9 mpg, what the car is worth would not buy me an electric bike. And the Skoda has done 163000 miles, so even if diesel reaches £10 per gallon I think I shall keep driving it till it will not pass an MOT or I need it for a Viking funeral! Keep the Hyundia Tuscon as the caravan tug. Did anyone pick up on the DVLA changing the driving licence to go up to 10tonnes? I think that opens the door for long range electric motorhomes and maybe the death of the towed caravan.

I'm rather surprised that local drivers of Transit pickups have not removed all the Mold Rly for recycling, obviously without paying for anything. But a few more years and nature will have overgrown the lot!

Darius, such high quality models and your output is staggering! I think you need to sit on the beach with an ice cream or you may have to buy all of our kit stashes to keep going!! Inspirational modelling.

Bantry's trip to Stamford went better than expected, particularly as we had not really had a proper shake down session and the backscene was painted by Mrs 84C that week!! Our club got soo lucky AND I am a lucky husband ; big thanks to my Sheila. Here are some pictures.

Just had a look at the MM Jenny coach & thought HOW much? insane, if people pay that sot of price we are headed into far more money than sense territory. In the same league as women's fashion in the Sunday supplements. Just my opinion.

What an impressive facade Heuston has looks more like a stately house than a railway station.

Brilliant stuff Eoin! have you tried lamps from Lanarkshire Models? I have found them very fine , a good range and lots of other detail parts in whitemetal and good to deal with. Also, you should make and sell those holding jigs. They look like a very well thought out tool and so flexible. Mick

Bantry makes its debut at Stamford Welland Academy this weekend. This is the event held by the Market Deeping club, thats the one that had all its exhibitors layouts vandalised, how long ago was it!!?? But if any of you here on the big island wish to visit and see the heads in hands, and as many aspects of model railway stress that you can think of!! please do show your faces. 10-4pm Sat and Sun full details on the club website.

I suppose the thing to keep in mind with all mills is the grain was taken to the top of the mill once, by elevator, then worked its way down the floors as it was processed. Animal feed had various products added in the mixing process then cooked by steam in the presses with a fat binder to make pellets/rolls. An interesting book is Milled from Golden Fields by Grahame Edge, gives a flavour of the flour milling industry in England but there are a lot of photos of lorries ancient and modern!

Been to a lot of mills in my working life and you are getting exactly the right atmosphere. Are you using a specific prototype or a sort of collage type mill?

I bought a Worsley Works Park Royal kit last year, still in the to do drawer. Projects my love, just projects!! I do like Park Royals they are so different to any other design.

I wonder if a straw poll on this group would give an indication of how many more U & UG's 00 works could sell?. I also regret not buying either model.

Yes, hard wired. You got a discount!! lucky man! Think of all these different ways of paying as part of life's experience's and its how it always happened in the past , will the treasured model sneak in under the customs radar. In the distant past I bought two brass locos one from the USA, paid duty and vat and the b--- PO handling fee made it a rather expensive loco the other one came from Australia, only paid the handling fee. Some you win !! Still got the locos, Colorado Midland 2-8-0's .