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  1. jhb171achill
    Uncivilised folk that they are! I blame Brexit for this illiteracy........!
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    Not necessarily, Weshty, and I would add hopefully not. Should circumstances arise where there's a shortage of the bigger locos which will take some years to get back to normal - and this HAS happened in the past - it's possible. I certainly hope so - she's a superb loco. But for the foreseeable future, right enough, she's unlikely to turn a wheel in traffic.
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    186 is ok, as it's displayed and in authentic appearance. I often though that with one J15 at Whitehead on display, a good location for a cosmetically restored 184 would be the museum at Downpatrick. No. 27 - years ago, there was a proposal for a museum at Belcoo, with a short line to operate Railcar B on. Funding, unusually, was available, through EU and Peace money. This was about 1999 / 2000. Lough Erne was to be a star attraction in a museum there, in the old (now demolished) goods shed. While funds were there, the landowners weren't all agreeable so it didn't happen.
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    We have 2 inches of the stuff. Shock! Horror! Armageddon approacheth; there will be mighty plagues of locusts, yea, saith the Weatherman, and plagues of locusts and asps! And the bread will be no more! And that leather-clad wan on RTÉ weather will appear, yea, even in your own homes on TV, to torture your eardrums with her ghastly contrived elocution-lesson pronunciation, that would verily make Ross O'Carroll Kelly throw up in a bucket.... Doom! Repent ye, miserable wretches, of your sins!
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    I'll go for the "over-estimated futile panic" theory. My theory on what's happening: I call it "winter". There will be no minus twenty, no two metres of snow. Remember where you read this first; my pleasure. By the way, what's a weather "event" meant to be? What inane and stupid terminology, says jhb171 the grinch.
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    Most certainly is, StevieB. Two RPSI locos have worked there, and at the time of the Antrim relaying contract some years ago, the DCDR had offered to make its two E class locos available should it be necessary (it wasn't). A J15, though, is too big for the DCDR. Not in terms of size, of course, as the DCDR was a main line, and the Quoile Bridge could take an 071 - but coal appetite. It would cost several thousand each way to transport it to Downpatrick, and its coal consumption would be far too uneconomic. In theory, a straight swop could be done with 142 and 146!
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    It is currently out of commission, as more suitable locos (i.e. faster) are now in traffic. It I should in good shape though, and could be out back into traffic comparatively easily if necessary.
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    ......or Connolly, Galway or Heuston!
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    Ye would swear it was a real house, Eoin! :-)
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    Couldn't agree more. Captures the atmosphere of CIE in the 60s and 70s perfectly. The brown Palvan (with the beet pulp) - is that scratchbuilt or a kit, Patrick?
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    Superb, Leslie. My biggest regret is I never did the Derry Road or the North Kerry. Could so easily have done both.
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    What do you think?
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    A very useful suggestion for those with little space..... kits of E and G class are available, and with not too much effort a British 08 could be made to look like a D class. Small steam engines too, same purpose. Have a look at the attached, and think of a model of a sugar factory reception sidings....... loads of Leslie's beet trucks, and maybe a scratch built Downpatrick "sugar engine"! (From H Beaumont Collection)
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    I always thought that a C & L styled layout would be amazing. Mayner's C & L models certainly confirm my view...
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    Looks great!
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    C O Y B I G !!!!
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    Those look very well indeed! Exactly the type of architecture I'm looking at.
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    Possibly no external difference? In the early 1990s, on the RPSI May Tour, when the Society used to hire Cravens from IE, on several occasions we simply removed two or three seating bays the night before in the Valeting Plant, and installed a counter and bar. At end of tour we put them back the way they were. Point being, things like this could be done for any period, however short, and zero external changes. I wonder if these other conversions were similar. I'm 90% certain that no other Craven (apart from 1508/9) ever had external alterations like blocked up windows.
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    Stencilled, as far as I remember, but couldn't swear to all examples being done that way. The grey on the bubbles initially was the older wagon grey, like you'd get on older brake vans, cattle trucks and wooden open wagons. The "H" vans, Palvans and steel-panelled brake vans were somewhat lighter. If that shunter was still at Inchicore, would they have to re-name it "Ethnic Minority" or "Locomotive of Colour"?
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    I put in a bid for a little above the $70. If it climbs higher I'm not that interested. I thought if I can get one cheap, fair enough, but it's by no means a priority. We'll see!
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    There's one on ebay for $70 + $30-odd shipping.
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    Many thanks, Ernie. I thought it might make a suitably quirky addition to current-layout-in-incubation. While the thing never seems to have strayed much from the DSER suburbans and the Youghal line, it is conceivable that it might have been banished to some remote south-western terminus, as it was briefly based in Cork anyway..... unless detail differences are savage, I thought if I could pick one up cheap and slap a bit of green on it, it would do! If its the wrong scale, that's different......!
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    If you still have the 146, is it for sale, and which livery is it in?
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    I seek the advice and knowledge of our esteemed colleagues here on this one. Is anyone aware of a model of some sort of German contraption which resembles the above loco? I'm sure I've seen pictures of one somewhere.
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    Yes. In original grey (normal wagon grey, basically) the logo was white lettering with a tan "broken wheel". They seemed to keep them cleaner both then and in the earlier days of the orange livery. If anyone fancies running a set in grey, just match the paint on the bubble to the grey on the chassis of the orange ones.
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