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Blog Comments posted by jhb171achill
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Mick has a Bandon tank under construction-I have a Silver fox rail car set on order!
The carriages will be interesting. One or two green laminates or Park Royals as railcar intermediates, but also perhaps a couple of 45' bogies of indeterminate origin! The brake would be either a brand new tin van or an elderly ex-MGWR six wheeled passenger brake or brake 3rd....
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I've often marvelled at the scenic details on many American layouts. Those are absolutely fantastic. Of course, in the Rockies and other places, they're not exactly short of inspiration!
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So, a Pratt with a bottom, and badgers, well...
Wow! The mind boggles....
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I should add, the buffer beam numerals really look well too.
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Absolute gem, stunning!
I showed the pics to Senior, who knew it well. He says it was grey initially and would have spent most of its life like this. I think CIE did indeed paint it green latterly, but it doesn't appear to have been doing much by then.
If I may be permitted one slight detail comment, the number plates should be either all grey, or grey with yellow cream raised edges and numerals. But overall, what a stunner!
How to follow that one.... Maybe an 820, the 4.6.2T based on the 800s, which never saw the light of day!
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Absolutely stunning!
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Look at that top photo. Garfield, here's a sixpence, nip over to the Railway Bar and get me a couple of bottles of stout.....
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The clifden track is indeed not real. The alignment of it, in fact, would not be possible on an operating railway.
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Wow! Original subject matter and looks great, well done! Can't wait to see more.
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I didn't know there was a 7mm kit of a MGWR J26 - or did you build it? Either way it looks very good. Should you manage a visit to Downpatrick, you will be made welcome re checking over the SLNCR articulated railcar which is there.
850 Nearly there!
in Mike 84C's Blog
A blog by Mike 84C in General
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Just looking at other posts here - some CIE locos (approx 25 according to the late Bob Clements) did get all-over black in late 50s, but 850 didn't.
The grey livery, incidentally, was also all over, including inside frames, connecting rods, smokebox and chimney; not black smokebox as almost universal with other liveries.