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  1. Mike 84C
    Ernie, I think you are doing a fabulous job of putting all these collections on line for us to enjoy. Thank you and long may you keep it up.
  2. Mike 84C
    My 134 in grey arrived yesterday lovely model well impressed, the detail all round is fantastic from the detailed cab to the grilles in the bonnet. Thank you Mr Murphy .My only gripe mine is missing the front handrails , the ones by the steps so I'm now into the emailing bit . I do hope MM comes up trumps. Not Donald though!
  3. Mike 84C
    I watched the interview of John Hemingway last night. What a modest man, a man I should love to meet and talk with, those men are heros. My wifes uncle was a Captain in MTB's he would talk about his experiences just occasionally . What struck me was the heady mix of very fast wooden boat, two huge petrol powered engines, a large amount of petrol fuel and torpedo's! Captain Jim was very casual about the whole thing! Health and Safety????
  4. Mike 84C
    That GN cement wagon just about sums up what I like about Irish railways. Use what you have got to make a low cost vehicle, make do and mend, keep things going. It maybe does not look good to the public but it makes our hobby interesting.
  5. Mike 84C
    Oh! Jhb you are so right and definately a good thing for a shunting layout the temptations are growing, not helped by that Georgeconna posting pictures. Thats a terrible thing to do!
  6. Mike 84C
    I'm sort of tempted but I thought they were scrapped before the 2nd world war. So I may pass on that loco. And its a chunk of money for a small tank engine even if its beautifully built.
  7. Mike 84C
    Thanks for posting, I would not have recognised the place! I used to pass through on Halls ,Black fives etc; even went up the branch to Adderbury and Bloxham where I lived!
  8. Mike 84C
    In honesty Galteemore & KMCE have said it all. I can only add "proper job".
  9. Mike 84C
    John, I would like a first series heating/luggage van. Mick
  10. Mike 84C

    Moyasta

    Mike 84C replied to airfixfan's topic in General Chat

    My wife and I went to the West Clare in 2012 and I was surprised the locos were in a not very secure compound and not all of them well sheeted from the elements. I hope things have changed for the better there.
  11. Mike 84C
    Brilliant Photos to cloudy in Lincolnshire.
  12. Mike 84C
    What beautiful script those reports are written in. I started to be taught that style in primary school but in came italic so my hand writing looks like neither! I do enjoy these snippets of railway history. And how learned this group is.
  13. Mike 84C

    rpsi B134 loco

    Mike 84C replied to mphoey's topic in News

    Hey!, JHB you saw I filthied up a green A class. I very nearly sprayed it silver, maybe I should have , but I like the green.
  14. Mike 84C
    Good photos there JHB thanks for posting, hope you had your hiviz vest on!
  15. Mike 84C
    The bogie ferts in his shop look OK item No;283938069265
  16. Mike 84C
    Looking good Whizz, a production line! I find its quite hard to stay interested when building on production line status but when you finish wow! instant freight train!
  17. Mike 84C
    Noel, the A & Sulzer are on Hornby Deltic chassis the C is on a Hornby Electro-Diesel cls 73 I believe. All bought on ebay and run well which is fortunate. All have the later enclosed motor, not the pancake one! Thanks for all the likes guys. Robert, I have started glazing, cutting up Ferro Roche boxes and filing to shape is a dull and boring job! So best man up and crack on. I did wonder if I have overdone the grime but I did use colour photos and filth does seem to be the order of the day in the Crossley era.
  18. Mike 84C
    JHB, I went again about 10/12 yrs later and missed Lady Edith in steam by 12 hrs; the boiler was still very warm! I took photos then but cannot find them, probably lost in a previous life! And I used a much better camera, always the way.
  19. Mike 84C
    Weeds help with the narrow gauge atmosphere. I do hope the driver is wearing their ear defenders! I didn't can't drive trains now. .
  20. Mike 84C
    Just a couple of things I have been doing during lock down. My god the camera is cruel! I hesitated before posting! They both look better in the flesh! Honest! Can I blame the camera phone?
  21. Mike 84C
    Some little while back there was a conversation about The Lady Edith. Well I took these very poor photos in 1975/6 in Allaire State Park N.J. With one of those Kodak shirt pocket Instamatics.. Who remembers them? best forgotten!
  22. Mike 84C
    Gosh, JHB I don't think I'll get a camera that close on any of my models! But I do take your point. 7mm but built when? and the rust must mean tinplate?
  23. Mike 84C
    JHB, is the loco unlined? there seems to be a dark line that follows the splashers & sandboxes outline. Go's around the cab side panel and around the side of the bunker & disappears round the top as if to continue across the bunker rear.
  24. Mike 84C
    Wonderful wild, bleak scenery surrounded by bogs and the scudding clouds. I do hope that when this b---y cv stuff is over I can get to see this project. Is it the sort of thing that civil engineering students/graduates would be interested in getting into? Thats how the Festiniog got its extension back to BF built. Please keep posting those brilliant photographs.
  25. Mike 84C
    I was also watching that, someone really wanted those two Park Royals! or maybe it was the Bachmann compartment stock. Ebay is a strange place.
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