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Left-handed or right?

Live steam, or DCC?

Kevin, if your efforts in replicating Belturbet are anything like what you’ve done so far, it will be a masterpiece….

Absolutely! The Rory one was sensational! I meant those miserable pair in anoraks….

Superb stuff, Neil! Wonder will they put the old overall roof at Foynes out of its misery...........

Gawwd knows what the IRM lads would do with that jar...........

Bruce? And his Range, as well? You're getting them mixed up with Hornsby. Bruce is a one-hit wonder, I'd say that at his concerts he sings the same song over and over again for about two hours. That's just the way it is...... Or Elvis Bachmann...........

Quote: "Lads, will yez all stop yer caterwauling, or I'm puttin yiz off the train"............

That's like, sooo awwsum, y'all!

Old man rant warning: I think the beatles, and that grumpy oul van morrison, are amongst the most overrated performers that these islands have produced. Only slightly more onboxious are the gallaghers. Can't stand any of them. Rant over; I'll show myself out.

Weren’t they some sort of oasis tribute band for fallen Rolling Stones fans?

Derek Got the following info from Kevan. "I started of with black acrylic primer. Went over with grey washes then dry brushed the rest. Grey primer was used. And then weathered Ballast was a bag of builders sand. I used it on the curve. The sunken look is achieved with daz clay between the sleepers...."

Derek Thank you for your comments - much appreciated. That bridge was made by Kevin McIntosh, for whom I have some questions myself regarding my ongoing efforts to extend the scenic part to something like his standard. I think it is just random washes of light grey, but I will add your question to several others I'm asking him anyway and report back here. Still a great deal to be done!

Once a week, the loco and coach of the branch mixed train swop, to go to Tralee for servicing. Here, one day in 1964, B165 and the branch brake standard leave Dugort Harbour on the up midday mixed. Three empty goods vans accompany them. They will cross the down train in half an hour, which hurries across the bog later that day with what will be the branch train next week - B141 and a Park Royal and van. The goods van on this train contains soap powder, bags of grain, groceries, a new furniture suite and a box of parts for a radio mast on a fishing boat. The three empty cattle trucks are to go to Kenmare for tomorrow's fair day. The opportunity is also taken to bring a new tanker of diesel down to the harbour for the fuel store there, which CIE use for the lorry and bus based there. IMG_5605.MOV IMG_5606.MOV

Looked up their website - seems to be all 0 gauge / scale, though?

One could have been second-hand, years later.

Will do, thanks!

They're awful wind-up merchants, those two...........

THAT’s not a measuring tape!! It’s a YELLA LINE!!

On the ninth day the Lord created a layout. And lo, it was equipped with DCC, scenery and a herd of shepherds who bore the correct livery. But Satan did smite it with a stable in the gauge of N.................... (Ist Gricers, 3.5)

Right. I'm reading between the lines. They are producing a limited edition of 8112 of some blue Ulster Translink Authority diesel, or two men in orange thingies. Am I getting close?

Saw that the other day - pity there are no trains upstairs!

I need a 45' one for my layout. Could any of our 3D print wizards do an Irish standard 45ft one? These massive 70ft things they have in GB, with little cabs on them and so forth, or ground level ones - for an Irish layout look as utterly ridiculous as a TGV in Amtrak livery, hauled by "Dick", on a model of the Sligo Leitrim in 1898. The "bought" turntables are both too big and too expensive.

Wow! A rolling stock enthusiast's dream. That's a heavy enough load to start with, but look at the van behind the locomotive - almost certainly DSER. Perhaps KMCE might know more? At least fourteen vehicles, which appear to be, and in this order: 1. DSER vent van 2. Rebuilt MGWR 6W passenger van 3. Convertible van - probably MGWR 4. GSWR 6W passenger brake 5. & 6. Two carriages - I think one is a Bredin, but both either that or 1951-3 series CIE 7. & 8. Looks like two wagons 9. & 10. Two carriages - one, at least, looks GSWR in outline. The rest is too blurry, or maybe my glasses are.

Attymon was a good example of that. Yes, it's a Belfast train. The local wouldn't have that many carriages either.