Mike 84C

I had a trawl through Hattons site last night I went to bed after 3400 items! That was just 00 /4mm stuff, lots of bargins  if your choosey .

Those BCDR signals would tax my skills and cause a retreat to the profanarium. They look more spindly than any Scottish Co signals.

Re Foamboard, if you know of any firms that make those display hoardings  that you see at events like agricultural shows, horsey type shows. The ads are often vinyls stuck on foam board. The offcuts are often quite large and skipped. I got a cab full foc from one company, got lots left and thats over ten yrs ago. Seek and ye shall find!

Fantastic! love to see it in the flesh so to speak!

I really thought the pictures of the loco before painting were of resin castings. The quality of finish is brilliant, no marks or lines . Wish I had the patience to get such a finish, I'm a bit of a good enough sort of person!

First class build and paint job, beautifully observed model. I very much like the GN ballast hoppers on your diorama. Scratch built or kit, please?

Flash the cash JHB   You will not be disappointed ,just take your time, I have taken years to finish all three!!  

That looks rather good and reminds me I have one to finish, best leave myself a note!  

About 30 yrs ago my son and I got chased off the narrow gauge terminus in Nice. The boy thought it very exciting! he was about 10yrs of age. Did get some photos of very French Billard rail cars though.

Nice bit of masking up, looking hard for a join and no old Daily Mirrors / Irish Times in sight!

I wondered what that heap was for a moment! How many years till burning peat is banned? I'm waiting for the green brigade to get Wood and Anthracite banned over here.

NIce  video brought back happy memories of firing and driving on the WHR.

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.