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Cracking layout Mr E, sir! Nice shots Wanderer! These and some at the 150 event with the Viking JB and a couple of the lads misbehaving in the background :ROFL:

Hi Eoghan, I'm going to assume you are on DC. Both trains need to be able to fit in the siding without fouling the mainline. You will need to be able to isolate the siding so that the train within will not move when the other is active on the mainline. If you have insulfrog points, switching the point for mainline running will break the current in one rail and the train in the siding will not move when the controller is turned on. You will already know this. If not you will need to isolate the siding with rail gaps and power to the siding and other sections can be turned on or off with switches as needed. You will need a minimum of two sections on the main oval separated by gaps in the rail. The first will be facing the point and must be long enough to contain the longer train. A train will stop here to reverse into the siding or enter this section from the siding to join the main oval. Power will be turned on in this section and in the siding to allow this movement. The other train will be isolated on the remainder of the oval by switching off the power in that section while this movement occurs. Since one train leaves the siding before the other can enter, both trains will run on the oval (power switched on in both sections of the oval) at the same speed (hopefully). The second train will be stopped on the facing section and reversed into the siding to clear the mainline, while the train initially in the siding remains isolated on the remainder of the oval.

I read somewhere that fitted wagons were bauxite and unfitted were grey. Was this by intent, incorrect, or the livery change happened to coincide with the introduction of a greater number of fitted wagons?

Ooworks states that the loco will weigh approx 250g when finished . This seems light to me, got to go and weight a woollie or something for comparison. The bed-plate / cab are made from cast metal. The boiler is injection resin, and chassis is brass. Apparently, the boiler section comes off with a pair of screws to allow easy fitting of a DCC chip.

If it's strange looking steamers you're after, don't forget the modified GS&WR prelude to the CC1

If they did, I would certainly get a U. Will wait and see. Fingers crossed! Not my forte

It's likely they received some polite constructive suggestions and made modifications. The UG class looks nice. No change to the U class from what I can see though, maybe a little on the loco under the boiler. I'd prefer the U in that livery. I can't magnify properly this for some reason. Hmm, can't download it either

Terry Wogan, a household name on both sides of the pond. Just heard the news a coupe of hours ago. Did not know he was ill nor did many from what I understand. Pretty young to pass in this day and age. RIP

I'll take two, John

That will be really cool for personal use or to sell when Halloween comes !

… and may the survivors reap the rolling stock

Done, Harry!

THat's very impressive, railwayman, very impressive. Nice touch the track work at the bank,. Love that covered wagon=D

Artistic license would allow the creation of Gráinne and Deirdre. I'll take those please Won't be needing the bubbles then, just the 'cement' powder please 3 clues? I'd second that (actually I think I proposed it) but they won't do it, I think:( An A class would sell way more I'd bet Any ideas as to the livery? Personally I'm hoping for orange or that beautiful steely blue-grey that someone posted a month back, maybe Glenderg, can't remember off hand, will dig it out later. Hoping for not another ivory with powdered muck melded to it but that's just personal choice

They had very economical shipping rates for overseas and their website was very transparent making all the VAT and shipping calculations at checkout rather than "we'll send you a quote later". Staff exceptionally nice to deal with also

Very cool, Bren! Darken the chain mail in the facial area as much as possible with something matt so there are no reflections from the links. My recollection of the King Angmar there, are that there is a deep 'void' in the facial region

Probably right. I guess you buy it on eBay then

Thanks for that information. It seems I have numbers for the gypsums that are indeed correct then.

Do the white metal or brass components create any electrical problems actually fitting these with a DCC chip (like, say, a split chassis loco)? How easy would it be to access the boiler to place a DCC chip as I assume parts may not just unclip like in plastic locomotives?

Pender & Richards book (1967) refers to these four wagons introduced in 1954 for carrying gypsum. It details only wagons that were introduced by CIE although refers to other types (not tabulated in the book) that were inherited by CIE. I don't have an older reference than this. The 26666- series has 29 wagons seemingly on a 9'6" wheelbase but introduced as late as 1972. It's possible that a subset of the 12'0" ballast wagons also functioned as gypsums. If anyone has details of which ones would you please post these?

http://europe.nxtbook.com/nxteu/zahra/em_20130607/index.php?device=accessible&pg=25 Mentioned on here but I can't identify any on the photos

Touché, hehehe

Almost like you read my mind, Chris. I was wondering the same thing the day before yesterday while running some MM stock round a couple of ovals with switches. Just a shade off and they won't couple easily and occasional uncoupling with any blemish in the track work like a point etc. There has already been a thread on here in the last few month concerning uncoupling on gradients:(

I looked at Locos & Rolling Stock of CIE & NIR Doyle/Hirsch 2nd Ed. ('81) for the numbers for the gypsums and could only find one series 26666-94 on a 9'6" wheelbase. Initially I thought this was a error/typo so I got my hand on the 3rd Ed. 1987 where the same catalogue appears. Were there two separate sets of 20T gypsums as these ballasts (and just about everything else after the earlier 10' wheelbase wagons) are on a 12' wheelbase? :confused:

Most of the traditional irish breeds would have been Dexters (small stocky black, red) Kerry (larger, black) Some Moiled Cattle (red & white) Herefords also seem to be relatively common(red) but more recent I think. Occasional Jersey hanging around homesteads but much rarer. Friesians (black & white) are a newer breed. Somebody with a more intensive farming background may be able to oblige with timing details.