brianmcs

challenging...................................

Clearly , for anyone who has an existing layout and fleet , it might be a difficult and  or expensive conversion. but for anyone starting out it would be very interesting . Other manufacturers like Bemo work in more than 1 gauge .  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY_mamm09CM

19 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Depends what you want to build and in what scale. I have used both plastic and metal. Properly treated, plasticard is very robust. What are you thinking of building ? 

Hello Galteemore, it will be some  00 coaches . perhaps the question is , will brass outlast plasticard ?

Hello all , if a fella was thinking of scratch building some rolling stock and wanted it to last a very long time , would he do it in brass or plastic ?

any thoughts ?

Hello all, just wondering if anyone has ever bought the shapeways version of the above coaches ? what is the surface finish like ?

thanks guys.

on another post the term "cattle loco " has been used . Which steam loco would be the most usual for a train of CIE cattle wagons ? 

as good as it gets  !!

Any thoughts as to whether these would be suitable for Irish lines ?

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Does it use a 42 ft flat wagon ?

1 hour ago, Old Blarney said:

I cannot say for certain, what where or which company ran the Locomotive or Rail-bus. My best Guess is. Locomotive - GNR(I) Railbus - Dublin and Blessington.

The Locomotive. This picture has a number of wagons in the background, unfortunately, it is impossible for me to determine whether, or not, they are Vans or Cattle Wagons Were they Cattle Wagons the locomotive could be shunting those wagons from the Cattle Shipper which ran from the West of Ireland to Belfast for onward sea crossing to Scotland. All guesswork on my behalf.

The Railbus. The Dublin and Blessington gauge was five foot three and this image gives me the impression that the railbus is on tracks of this width. I've discounted the Dublin United Tramways line to Lucan. It was electrified and regauged to five feet three inches when taken into DUTC ownership; so there was no need to run a railbus on it. In addition,  I cannot remember any building of the type in your photograph being on this tramway line. I lived in a property beside the line in Palmerstown and travelled to Lucan.

  

Many thanks for your help. there are a couple of photos on this page where the roof of the building in the background matches the one in my photo. This suggests it was taken at the Templeogue depot . http://www.tramwaybadgesandbuttons.com/page148/page149/styled-238/page661.html

5 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Top loco looks very much like a GNRI JT class. The dress code suggests 20s-30s and the boys look dressed in a Scout uniform of sorts 

The photos are from scouting Ireland's collection . One of them has the number 94 on the back , could this be the number of the loco ?

Hello All ,

can anyone help identify these 2, or which railway they belonged to ?

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super photos . thanks JHB.

Hopefully the museum will re open soon.

Hello all , does anyone have any photos of Cyril Fry's blue and white MGWR coaches ? The museum is closed for the moment .  

I wouldn't call this " messing "

Thanks Glenderg

Hi guys , any body know where the fuel gauge goes on the mk 3 EGV ?

hi guys, found this in a publication from 1934

at long last i seem to have achieved some sort of completion with these !

It has taken a long time to get to this stage but finally started the painting

thanks for the offer George , I saw your message too late though and got some paint this morning . You should put them up for sale as the MIR kits seem to be available again .