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The whole idea of how to take effective pics of layouts is beginning to interest me. I took that one in genuine dusk light, with the lights off in the room. I’m studying the way layouts are portrayed in the “comics”; what sort of lighting, angles and so on that people use. Much to learn, as I await the track for the rest of the layout… Tried to load a 28 second video clip, but it won't play ball. Any way of doing this without putting it all up on youtube? IMG_9355.MOV IMG_9357.MOV IMG_9356.MOV

That's like the "free-to-free" traffic from Dublin to Donegal back in the day - crawling non-stop through Enniskillen and Omagh.

Proper buffers and couplings instead of the tram things they have on ICRs.......

Ah, but it's a diesel....... whereas that sectioned yoke is the business!

What's that sectioned 2.4.0? Nice looking beast.

Might get out the "proper" camera and dust it down - thirty years ago, photography was a separate hobby of mine, but just about every picture I've taken in the last ten years has been with a mobile phone! This includes all of the above......

The whole idea of how to take effective pics of layouts is beginning to interest me. I took that one in genuine dusk light, with the lights off in the room. I’m studying the way layouts are portrayed in the “comics”; what sort of lighting, angles and so on that people use. Much to learn, as I await the track for the rest of the layout…

Which is exactly why the guard has it in the Guard's van. He will put his packet of egg sandwiches in greaseproof paper on top of it, so those white-hatted busybodies won't go near it.

It’s thirty years before the Northern Bank robbery, of course……

“What have you got in that package?” “Never you mind. Don’t tell yer man a THING”……

Finally, a lonely J15 has been shoved into the former loco road following a leaking boiler tube…. Tomorrow the Castletown pilot engine will be summoned to rescue it.

109 takes water before taking the early morning train…. While, five years later, B165 prepares to depart with the same service. I’ll see what I can do! Doesn’t seem to want to download here….

B165 shunts incoming wagons of coal, then disappears light engine back to Castletown West. And leaving light engine….

Doings at Dugort Harbour….. experimenting with images as much as shunting…. There’s the panoramic, as in the first pic. Hard to do this at ground level due to lack of depth-of-field. The third pic is tinted to look like an old colour slide from the mid-60s.

“Look, I don’t CARE if your brother is still in O’Donoghue’s. And I don’t CARE if you write to Lemass. I can’t hold the train!….”

Good to see the track still there........ it was, of course, double track until (I think) 1928. I was over it myself many a time.

Wow - spectacular as always! Absolutely one of my favourite layouts....

Can it be Friday more often, please? Superb photos, superb angles, very well composed, and amazing scenery. That's the sort of layout I like, where you can lose yourself in the entire scenery and background...... excellent stuff.

That's looking VERY impressive!

The BR van with single white stripe - early 70s to early 90s. Double white stripes - 1990s to early 2000s. For the 1960s (indeed, late 50s to early 70s), the four wheel tin vans are really the only show in town on practically ALL trains. The six-wheel ones were only seen in main lines. I saw them on the Enterprise and on the Cork line. Never saw a 6-wheeled one on the Midland, though I can’t say it didn’t ever happen.

Yes, it would match cravens perfectly. I have one of these but I’ve found it to be very prone to derailment….

Yes - I must do that one with steam, soon!

Fiddling about with images, while trying to keep a mobile phone the scale size of the Titanic from damaging delicate scenery! It’s 1964 again, of course.

Yes, indeed, it looks superbly realistic.

That superelevation looks so realistic - don't remember seeing that modelled before. Superb.