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That really is the pinnacle of 4mm modelling. I wish I had a quarter of the skills involved in creating that loco. Absolutely superb job, sir; hats off to you!

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Check with JM Design....

I have no experience of 3D print stuff, other than Silverfox models (am I right in believing that their stuff is produced this way?), so having noted the above, I wonder what opinions there might be about its suitability for "0" gauge? A friend is currently putting together an "0" scale shunting layout, and I would pass on to him any relevant opinions.......

Yes, almost certainly too heavy. A 3ft gauge bogie version would be better, but the Walker yokes would probably have gone there, with the four Clare railcars....

Sure is one of them! Looks like a load of three plus possibly a van of some sort? If it’s like a 121, it’s going to be well able for that.

Very many thanks, RichL. In my teens, I devised an idea for an 009 layout, based on what the CDR would have looked like if it had ended up in the 1970s as part of CIE. I had designed a scaled-down "Dutch Van", and a similarly scaled-down 121; THIS thing above, and in particular the solitary example which went to South Africa and thus must have been "Cape" gauge, intrigued me as to what CIE might have ordered in the 1960s to replace most of the old railcars! (Must dig out my old drawing out of sheer curiosity, though I have since become "broad-minded" (5ft3) rather than "narrow-minded (3ft)!!).....

In 1960 the Lebanese Railways took delivery of four six-wheeled diesel locomotives, very much like a cross between an “E” and a B121. A further two were built for industrial use, one going to South Africa, thus probably 3ft 6ins gauge. On a separate forum a picture of one these was posted. They were class GM6 (not GM6c, which seems to figure more in searches). The design is very clearly off the same drawing board as CIE’s locomotives, as of course one might expect. I would be interested in finding out more. There is little apparently obvious on the interweb. Any ideas, anyone, on where more comprehensive info might be available?

What's the small yellow writing on the cab door?

Crew cars! Genuinely, when working out in a remote and exposed bog in the midlands, and it starts pouring and you'd get up to your waist in mud....... and the tea breaks, and transporting workers to remote sites.... But - I get ya!

Yes, you wonder where "railway vehicle" ends, and where "random bits of half-welded buckets and bits of worthless unidentifiable scrap on wheels" takes over!

Perhaps a sample stretch of line might be kept somewhere of 4 or 5 miles.....for such an attraction.

An excellent book, though!

That's what we get for running them on track which isn't 21mm.......

First pic - three locos, three liveries...... green "C", grey "121" and black'n'tan "A"! Second pic - deliciously filthy! Third pic - 861 - first coach I ever worked on in the '70s........ it still had original first class GSWR horse-hair-stuffed upholstery in the compartment nearest to the camera..........

Sad, but I suppose inevitable. Anyone with a bit of a field will be able to buy track, a working locomotive and find wagon chassis soon! They can’t ALL be preserved..... If I had a bit of land, I’d be off to the ATM!

A fair bit on several systems but get there quick, as its days are numbered.

In the Achill area, where I have many friends and contacts in the tourism industry, they were able to tell me that the greenway there brings in some 50-60,000 people a year on top of what they had. Most eat and drink there, and while Achill and Mulrany experience a modest increase in overnight stays, Newport and above all, Westport, have benefitted more. Several pubs along the way - Nevins at Tieranaur, Daly’s in Mulrany and the Ostán Oilean Acla (“Alice’s”) at the bridge onto the island, have had their daytime meals take off BIG time. Bike hire firms along the way, and several souvenir and coffee shops en route, have created about fifty new permanent jobs, over half of these in Newport and Westport.

Hope they're not associated with slavery!

I did the Newport - Achill bit when it first opened - but I didn't dress in day-glo lycra! Must do it again, actually..........

How did they get onto it? It is, as far as I am aware, clearly marked as private property...... Presumably, Jim would be well within his rights to advise them into which nook or cranny they might place their lycra-carbon-fibre €5000 bicycles........!

Very true - but gimme the railcars any day!

One wonders is this why the West Clare was turned down for modest funding recently? Why not just close the whole railway network and give it over to the Lycra mafia.....who will STILL cycle along narrow twisty roads adjacent to empty greenways....!

Looks great. Weathering and general dirt - especially in later days - did darken them to the way you have, although the grey was a uniform colour when clean. Some light weathering now would make it look “heavily” weathered very convincingly.

Might get down weekend after next.