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Mike 84C
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Definately a superb conversion, the running after fitting the new pickup is a revelation! The line on the foreshore looks very good, well done.
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Has anyone got a drawing and dimensions for those strange signal posts that look like an upturned cricket bat with holes in them? I believe they were made by the Railway Signal Co in Liverpool and I have traced their records to a library in the ;pool. But ask here first! This type seems to be at Bantry in the 40's/50's and at some intermediate stations, but not all and does not appear to have a corresponding junction signal.
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Found these in the Locomotive Magazine Jan 15 1934
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That looks the business Eoin, the split chassis is a good idea in principle but! I have also had erratic running from some after disassembly for cleaning but others were fine. Have had poor running in one direction with Hornby 4 pin dcc but am told the Hornby chip is not very good. Pit stop chip change at Digitrains and it goes like a good'un!
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Hello David, Arigna Town is excellent but your Clogher project is a quantum leap forward. I look forward to its launch onto the exhibition circuit. Maybe both layouts at the same show? would that be a first?
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I seem to remember a post about the colour of loco lamps when shunting. My 1933 GSR rule book says Rule 123; Engines employed exclusively in shunting at station yards and sidings must, after sunset or during for or falling snow,carry head and tail lamps both showing a red light or such other light as may be prescribed. So maybe not a red and white over each buffer as on BR. Sorry if you all knew this already!
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First class review in the August Model Rail magazine, well done.
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btb,sorry for the hi-jack its your thread and I shall keep it zipped.
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Wow! amazing!
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In Locomotives of the GSR on pages 247,248,249 there are photos of Irish K class with the welded smoke box and the domed smoke box door. According to the potted history the MGW did a very good deal with an average purchase price per set of parts of £2,200 per engine and the Woolwich Arsenal had paid £3,375 average per boiler 3/4 yrs earlier. Cheap as chips hence the nickname Woolworths.
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Morning DC, Good photograph I think it makes my point. I did a repaint of a BR N into a CIE K a couple of years ago but when I look at pictures of K class now, I can see that I should have put rivets on the smoke box and more effort into a different smoke box door. Its "face" spoils the loco for me. Only ex GWR locos were all right hand drive for left hand running. All the other companies had a mixture of LH/RH drive locos, in my experience. But the GWR always was different!
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The British N class had both types of Maunsell tender. They were also left and right hand drive but I believe the CIE ones were all right hand drive as all the photos I have seen show the exhaust injector by the left hand cab steps. And the reversing reach rod on the right.
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Superb work as always.
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Noel,thanks for confirming I made the right call.And flagging the Shapeways link.
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I agree with you JHB re stock for Bantry but as ,at the moment, two of us are the rolling stock providers and we are both pensioners! we are watching the pennies! BUT I would probably go for MGW coaches and CIE cattle wagons. I am mulling over doing a resin casting but have to make a master as yet and I seem to be drowning in other projects!
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It; that is excellent I love the sound and lights. But far too clean! I wonder how long till we get a Crossley sound file?
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Ebay bidding wars,is £65.50 a lot for an IRM 121 kit? I watched and thought Noooo! not for me. And I have not got the Athern chassis to make it a runner.
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Amazing, what a B&B it would make! The signals are brilliant, how has it all survived for so long?
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Thanks for all the praise and pats on the back guys. All I can say is watch this space! 'cos I'm sure there is more to follow.
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Narrow Gauge in the Rockies not quite
Mike 84C replied to Mayner's topic in US / Canadian Railway Modelling
John, that last shot of the Goose and 464 is brilliant. The stock and box cars receding down the slope make the photo, or they do for me! -
Thanks Jim, your pictures are rather good and make our small very local exhibition look rather professional! Pity there were not vast crowds pouring in from Sleaford but maybe next year! Our Bantry in build looked better than I expected and there was a lot of interest in the layout and it surprised me how many people said they had visited Bantry and West Cork! Nelson and David, the 2-6-2t is 850 the solitary one of its class built for the Dublin Bray commuter service. My kit bash of it is in the latest New Irish Lines; subscribe NOW! the magazine is in very short supply!!
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I have had one of those sat in a box for how long??? Eoin you have illuminated my path! Just got to finish a J 11 before the weekend!! Ingenious modelling, very clean and tidy just like everything you do.
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Hi Noel, great paint finish and first class looking models,very well executed. The photos of the build are first class and a very helpful guide.
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The Festiniog used a by product of refining for bitumen known in the trade as LMD. Its a high sulphur product that can only be used for external combustion, eg. boilers, on land but works very well in ship engines of most types. The sulphur is not a problem once off shore!
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Looks good John, now we just got to get it running before June 2nd!
