Auto-Train Original

Good luck with your aim of getting a club going. In terms of starting up, I would suggest begin with a homogeneous HO/OO layout. One that will have buildings and scenery that would be plausibly found in most of North America/UK and Ireland/Europe so people can run their own stock on. This kind of semi-blank canvas layout makes everyone feel welcome, and it can be great fun to have a theme night now and again. A large layout like this can be constructed in a short time and not cost a lot. A couple of loops of Code 100 track, few sidings and with a switchable DC/DCC control system. No one feels left out, or forced to model a prototype they are not interested in. Then, as the club becomes established, you can build that M&GW or Portumna and Macguire Bridge (joking!) specific layout. A new (all clubs in fact) club should be accessible to anyone who walks in the door. I know this as I have lived all over and joined model train clubs worldwide and a friendly smile and length of track is a beautiful thing to be offered on your first night in the door. Novice or master crafts builder.

thanks could well be. I think it was painted silver or white? Maybe a later livery. This was late 70s I'd say. thanks everyone - fantastic. Loving the forum.

I am trying to figure out if this is a false memory or something, but I recall as a kid my dad doing a job in the deep end of the Dublin docks and took me along. There was a rail yard with tank wagons there and I am almost certain there was also a small diesel loco working the yard that was not CIE. Can anyone tell me I was not imagining this? Thanks in advance.

Cyril Fry really was something else. Incredible photos thanks.

how did the brakes operate on this! GNR/CIE MAK diesel?

Cheers guys - I will try to get to Raheny so. Thanks.

Hi. I have been given a Silver Fox A Class in green as a gift. I would like to run some wagons with it. I am fairly good at kitbashing so is there any commercially available OO wagons I can repaint or alter to make a short train to be 'close enough' kind of thing? Also a Brake Van? Thanks in advance.