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jhb171achill
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Indeed - purist as he was in all things GSR & CIE, he particularly liked the lined green of main line passenger locos so much, that he painted ALL his CIE locos like this, even though the vast majority would never have been anything but dark grey!
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That’s a nice tribute from Joe, who would have known him extremely well.
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I find that I have a surplus Woolwich tender that I picked up somewhere. It's in the "Rosslare" black livery that a single member of the class carried for about 18 months for the "Rosslare Express" in the late 1950s; flying snail (in correct light green) on tender. If anyone here wants it, ping me privately, as otherwise I'll put it up on fleabay for, I suppose, about €30 which seems to be the going rate, more or less; plus postage.
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Cans available in lined green, lined blue or lined black.
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So Fanta is an MGWR brand…..
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Maybe do a cheap version and make it an 0.3.0…….. ? (Ah, here’s me bus)
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Absolutely T O P class!!!!
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Yes, in 7mm it IS dear, but to be fair, very do-able, as you correctly assess; the scumble finish assists. However, in 00, seems a big “no-no”?
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Warning: Environmentally conscious people - please skip to the next chapter.... When I was involved in steam-raising at Whitehead years ago, and loco crew in Downpatrick, the amount of polystyrene containers, plastic drink bottles, at least one old Argus catalogue, empty plastic coal sacks, plastic bags and other random rubbish that ended up in loco fireboxes - you'd hardly believe!! (This afternoon, I would have happily consigned two cyclists and one snail-pace driver to the same location...........................!!!)
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He's ordering the deliveroo for the crew and they've put him on hold.
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The site’s there still…..! Amazing collection of layouts.
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Review of Ireland's Rail Network
jhb171achill replied to Barl's topic in What's happening on the network?
You’d think that was a reasonable idea, indeed. By the time that Jeffrey & The Abominable No Men have grown up and decided to do their job, any info in this report will either be out of date, or deemed to be out of date by those within governmental circles whose apathy (or hostility) to railways is well entrenched; both sides of the border. -
For those who knew Drew, or his reputation, the idea of his reaction to those plastic Americans would be worth ten dollars a box…….
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Ah, ok, didn’t know that.
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Looking this up now!
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I presume that’s a wartime livery…. Its near enough the right colour for GSR / CIE, though if you wanted to go that route all you need is a number on the cabside instead of the tender, and a grey smokebox. Certainly does look “Irish-ish”….. Presumably you removed the smoke deflectors that the British versions had?
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Looks a bit young for Drew in the 1970s? Could be an old photo? It does look very like him when younger, perhaps.
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Great stuff, Noel, as always!
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Is that a British version of a "Woolwich" I see there?
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But you were right initially in that it WAS on the "County Donegal Railways" system - albeit a section owned by the NCC........
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CIE glory days - IRRS Tour 1977 LJ + Waterford
jhb171achill replied to Noel's topic in What's happening on the network?
Brilliant trip and brilliant weather - was on it.- 1 reply
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"Erin", No. 299 (later), by the look of it.
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Review of Ireland's Rail Network
jhb171achill replied to Barl's topic in What's happening on the network?
It's also riddled with vicious curves, as is the Strabane - Letterkenny line. -
True. If any Shapeways stuff IS actually good quality and worth the (quite high) prices, that fact will sadly be lost amongst a litany of awful reviews of their other stuff. As a result, despite there being a number of things I'd like to get off their website, without knowing specifics about individual prints of things, unfortunately I wouldn't touch them.
