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My preferred weapon (I'm not the best touch typist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Épée

I'm sorry, Harry! The color of priests' socks is a very serious (maybe even Ecumenical) matter. There are only 10 VERYs to be prototypical!

I suppose the commemorative item will be a B special

Seriousness, power and odd shapes are the path to the dark side (of modeling)

=)) I fell into that trap too. Hope you didn't give any ladies fashions as Christmas presents, Jim!

I didn't think they were black at all, except one lined in red, the rest unlined grey, chassis the same color;) That's a much lighter shade than the priestly very very very very very very very very very very dark blue:p

My mistake, Harry, for deficient knowledge of the GNR, and making assumptions based on dates and black an white photos:o

I think that was a typo by Wrenneire. They're £255-265 which is about €350 plus P&P. Still expensive. That said, I would be interested in a U class but not necessarily a UG unless it was liveried in GNR blue & scarlet. The group purchase sounds like a great idea. Let's get back to discussing the G'n'R U'n'UG classes;) Some lovely shots there, Glenderg! Really sparked some interest with those

one!

Not to mention the change in the centre cab windows….. http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/689-Article-121-Class-Locomotive-Drawings?highlight=121+class+centre+window

Lovely diorama! Looking forward to the final C class at some point:tumbsup:

I certainly hope so, even if it was a sugar cube or similar if space is tight. The 12 had the EMD 8-567CR as a prime mover which was the same as the 141 class, although I think the 181 class has the 645E. Is there already a sound chip out there for it? It would have been nice to have some feedback from MM from the consumers perspective at some point before I went and repsrayed a rake. But new fleet numbers is good…. hmmm Yippee! I'll be taking three of those and then more with the later liveries:-bd

What are their locos like? How do these run?

Happy New Year, John and all. WIth a 19 hour headstart you'll be reading this on Jan 2nd! :ROFL: After 26C on Christmas Day, it's turned cold here too There's a substantial lead time on these, isn't there? They'd have to be in production now and not a squeak from Wrenneire

Nothing that a thousand ton of rock would't cure. Not sure if that'll move the erosion point a little further on. In any case dumping some rock in there now would be cheaper than anything else later.

Some additional photos of the bridge for you http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=images&county=LH&regno=13620012 I'd take some time to find a workable plan as you may have regrets during the build or after

Well at least some defenses have been put in place over the last year or so. Looks like they stuck a good fence there now, sure, it'll be grand:rolleyes:

John, since I was not aware of the circumstances surrounding these accidents, for anyone interested in your comments, the Cahir accident was discussed on the site here http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/829-Cahir-crash-1955 The report into the GSR accident at Straboe during the Emergency seems to confirm your assertions that there was widespread non-observance of safe practices by drivers and guards, contributed to in minor part by equipment shortages including oil for train lighting http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DIE_Straboe1944.pdf The accident at Dundrum was attributable to an signaling error by the signal man and failure to warn more then one train of a potential obstruction on the line. Once again in darkness with a contributory rear lighting failure on the first train

Amazon/AbeBooks doesn't have this. Wonder who's got reasonable shipping to the US?

Thanks for that explanation of the accident and rolling stock. I wonder if everyone had been in structurally sounder coaches such as Cravens and Park Royals whether the outcome would had been different.

Some decent photos of the MK restaurants plus roof detail etc http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3717-IE-Mark-III-Restaurant-Coach-Roof-Details?highlight=mkiii+restaurant and this regarding donors etc. http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/4898-Mk3-Donors?highlight=mkiii+restaurant The Lima version from 15 years ago http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/content.php/187-IE-MKIII-Restaurant The more prototypical Irish version I can't lay my hands on the thread either, Richie, I think it's one of Wrenneire's. Will look later

Apparently the GL8 body is now made by a Brazilian company called Hobbytec and although a 'resin' kit actually is a fair representation of the exported EMD GL8s. At 160 Reals it is about US$40 or €37 Unfortunately, it is definitely HO and at 125 x 40 x 32 mm scales to only 31' 3" in OO but about 35' 9" in HO. The prototype drawing for 121 on the site is not quite as detailed as say the B Sulzer but I think the 121 is 36'2" over the sills. I think that I saw the bogies or side frames are available separately so, for the MIR kit, might be an alternative to the white metal side frames which seem to be oversized, in conjunction with say the modern Athearn SW1500 switcher chassis

Unlucky mileposts 77, it seems

That's still pretty good value Thanks for taking the trouble to do that, Noel. That's a very impressive test run versus the 141. The initial slow speed crawl id pretty amazing. Irishrailway (earlier posts) has been pretty impressed with the running of the newer Athearn SW1500 chassis and runs several. Mnay thanks for that video!

That's an interesting observation. I'm not sure whether the upper edge of the cab window is actually above the cab side windows or not, but it does look like it's somewhat lower on the model. The thread has definitely identified how complex the design of the front end of the Sulzers might have been, CAD or not. It is probably hard to replicate this on a resin model which creates a interesting problem for my adjacent 121 thread. Will post there later. Lower edges definitely have a plinth above the cab window level. Any help?