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  1. jhb171achill
    I think they sound more shrill when painted black'n'tan..... :-) (I'll just get me coat...)
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    I know this is off topic..... I never discerned much difference between the old and later 121 engines, but I remember A & C well, and the unique-sounding "whistle" of the NIR Hunslets. What I DON'T remember, but would love to hear, is the B101 sound, which I have no recollection of although I footplated one! And the old Bollinder engines of CIE's Grand Canal barges....
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    That 184 plate is interesting, in that it's one of the ones specially cast for her to appear in a special livery for filming about 1959/60-ish. It is thus unique. Naturally, she had carried a painted number for some years before, and the original Inchicore plate would have disappeared some time in the late 49s / early 50s. I'm presuming the DSER one is off a wagon. No coach or loco had anything like that. As far as I am aware, full lists of DSER wagons haven't survived, so finding out exactly what it came off might be difficult.
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    Indeed.....and as I often tell tourists, when explaining the implications of actually seeing, rather than just hearing, the banshee, "most Irishmen meet her in person when we get home from the pub on a Saturday night"......
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    Wow!!!!
  6. jhb171achill
    Outstanding. One of my favourite layouts. More please!
  7. jhb171achill
    For a model J15, there were a number of variations, not to mention different tenders used at various times. With the SSM kit showing one variation, perhaps the larger (later) boilered variety, like 186, would be best. If modelling the grey/green era, a decent RTR six wheeler is a must. I'd be in the market for a good few.
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    With a liberal coating of South Wexford mud from the beet, they weathered to a greyish brown colour, to such an extent that the original brown (and yes, that's way too red) was completely obscured. So much so, that operating them in a pristine state would be akin to a "wrong livery", same as an all silver A or C class loco, or tin van! So the solution is to very heavily weather them, and all will look good.
  9. jhb171achill
    "Costs"? €136 to the auctioneer? !!!!!!! No way I would have paid that.
  10. jhb171achill
    Excellent buy, excellent cleaning job. It's better to clean up, as obviously a repaint - even if absolutely correctly done - decreases value. I notice that not only this, but other wagon / coach / tender numberplates too, were described inaccurately by the auctioneers as being off locomotives! Surely they must realise that the DSER never had 913 engines in their sheds.....!
  11. jhb171achill
    "Steam Train's" with an apostrophe? Map of Ireland? Hmmmmmmm..... EXCELLENT content, though.
  12. jhb171achill
    I wonder where 532's number plate went?
  13. jhb171achill
    Absolutely top class job.
  14. jhb171achill
    It's off a tram. I suspect British.
  15. jhb171achill
    Those on 186 and 184 are replicas made (accurately) by Whitehead. When the society got them, they had painted numbers.
  16. jhb171achill
    00n3 would be better as its closer to 3ft gauge. 009 better for scale 2ft gauge and wouldn't look right.
  17. jhb171achill
    It'll be 00 scale push bikes and Lycra next....! Bring on the grey 121s!
  18. jhb171achill
    Correct - Inchicore removed them about 1955-ish
  19. jhb171achill
    This is the late Johnny O'Meara's stuff. Among it is a cabside plate of D16 "Achill Bogie" No. 532! I might bid. Or I might not.
  20. jhb171achill
    Trouble is, whatever metal they were made of polished to a silvery colour!
  21. jhb171achill
    Eoin, yes, normally a light yellow creamy colour but according to jhb171achill Senior, who spent many Saturdays bumbling about Inchicore in the 1930s, the odd one did have polished numerals and rims, like 186 currently.
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    That truly looks so good. Captures the era perfectly.
  24. jhb171achill
    "The sin is not the doing; it's the being-found-out" (Most politicians, 1789-present)
  25. jhb171achill
    Now THAT would be a sight to behold!
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