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jhb171achill
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And the brown of the plastic is just right for post-1970 brown!
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Whatever about wheelbase, my recollection of them in traffic, and I saw many often, was that they were all the same length, same in fact as a standard "H" van. There certainly weren't the more "elongated" ones which were to be found as versions of various types of wagons in Britain.
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That continues to be one outstanding layout! Always like to see updates.
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There's a man who'd remember grey & yellow 121s....
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I suppose it's fair comment, Tony, that not one thing that ever ran on rails is anywhere near as grotesque at that causeway biscuit tin! So the Ravenglass railcar's off the hook! :-)
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That's what I thought too, junctionmad. But I checked with someone in IE.
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Still gauntletted.
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It's turned very green. Did they rebuild it in copper?
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Looks like that rubber-band-powered biscuit tin they have on the giants causeway railway!
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Group buy - that's a great idea, if the is anyone insurance-related listening....
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Mind you, for someone breaking into someone else's house, I'd be all for that happening to them! Insurance - probably, then, best to shop around. Years and years ago, I had some very expensive came equipment and I found that if you shopped around, you'd get it covered for about 10% of the cost of taking out some sort of special policy. From memory, it worked out at maybe €40 a year on top of the basic policy cost. Maybe double that nowadays.
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Is there anything in 00 which would approximate to the RPSI's "Harvey"? Or, the ex-Allman's Distillery loco which the GSR bought for shunting Cork docks? I always thought a layout based on an Albert Quay style setting, with a siding out onto a dock would be of great interest to operate or watch...
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Probably best included in household insurance under "valuables", I would think.
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True, glenderg....
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That Rocar fella doesn't seem to have any info about ordering, or prices - does he do commissions, I wonder, or did I just miss something?
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Believe it or not, I have that book somewhere but have yet to read it..... wouldn't be like James Boyd to make an error like that - but none of us are perfect!
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Art imitating reality; it's like sticking an American engine into a Crossley-engined Metrovick.... I wonder if that would work.....
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So maybe €150 the lot, or thereabouts..... that's not bad. GSR800 - instead of Irish coffee, I'll have a Guinness. Many thanks! :-) And instead of mince pies, let me at the dark choc digestives....get back! get back!
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The delights of 7mm narrow gauge
jhb171achill replied to David Holman's topic in Irish Model Layouts
Are there many people on IRM who deal with 45mm gauge garden railways? If so, I may have some bits and pieces of interest. -
Ye will never find me, Harry. I didn't say WHAT part of the IRRS I'd be in..... To go back to the thread - roughly what's the cost of the Sulzer body PLUS a suitable chassis (class 55, for example)?
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GSR, you're scarier still. The CEO of the 400 class Mafia! The GSR actually kept their carriages very well, as did most railway companies back then. However, that meant washing, not always repainting! Often paint on carriages was badly faded and worn before they saw a paintbrush again. The constantly poverty-stricken SLNCR was probably an extreme case!
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Looks really well. Jason.
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Actually, if the mods will forgive one slight divergence from the thread, there was a good reason why dull colours and dark shades were favoured by railway companies in the past. First, grey and black paint were cheaper. Secondly, how long would an orange-roofed coach or a silver-grey ICR stay clean, let alone a raspberry ripple DD coach, with a steam engine up front, and larger stations full of them?
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On behalf of the Rivet Counting Militia, I hereby issue a fatwa against the Grey Militia. See ye in the IRRS tonight.
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The delights of 7mm narrow gauge
jhb171achill replied to David Holman's topic in Irish Model Layouts
Whats a diesel?
