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=))Time cures all things …. keep looking at the blue seats, Noel! I'm sorry I brought it up!

This is just a wild suggestion and I'd take a coach you dislike from your collection to experiment on first…but, if you've ever had to refurbish old discolored car headlights, you can sand them down with progressively finer sandpaper during which they transition from "OMG, I've completely ruined the flippin' thing!" on the first pass with rough paper, to becoming completely translucent and shining new when the finest paper is used. If you were to be one paper rougher than 'finished', that it might solve your glare while leaving the windows sufficiently transparent to observe the interiors. I may be trial and error to find the correct finishing grit (if that's the correct term), and you'd have to remove the plastic from the coaches to do it of course. Lot of work but if they're bugging you and you're going to repaint the interiors anyway…..

True. 007 mentioned that above.

Now for those with the skills that would be worth building! Haven't seen one on here but I'll bet someone will throw up a photo of a scratch built to prove me wrong…...

THanks to you both. Both good options. Like that Wills …… hmmm

Thanks, Alan. eHattons is a great site for reference. I use it like a little encyclopedia as it almost always has a little image of the product. Unfortunately, this one is out of stock, they always list whether it's actually in stock on the right-hand side. The good thing is the photos are still on there if you need to look at an image of something after it has sold out with them.

I need several more of these, which sadly are no longer available, as a stopgap until I acquire the skills necessary to scratch build the Chetwynd viaduct, which will hopefully eventually replace it. But for now, if you have any surplus to requirements please PM me. I tried to search the RMweb site as a potential source but find it cumbersome. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks, Kevin

Not really my modeling period but wanted to complete my collection of 141/181s…… If you have one surplus o requirements please PM me. Thanks, Kevin

Nope, it didn't sell, he didn't dismantle it and it's still on there

Great thread JHB…. keep it coming:tumbsup: Thanks Josefstadt for helping my neck strain with technical assistance;)

Did you eventually solve this mystery? I didn't see a solution on the thread….

If they are actually causing problems then I definitely would rewheel them, but if your threads are anything to judge by, you'd have done that already if they were, methinks…..

Now, you'll definitely have to negotiate with the Ministry of the Interior for this one, but there is a bid on it, maybe by a club…. http://www.ebay.ie/itm/121501606087?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

These things are all a work in progress and the enjoyment is from the journey. Looking forward to the progress you'll make in 2015:D

Very interesting. Think I got it and purchased some Bachmann donors. Thanks, John. Is it just me, Tom, or are there two different shades of 'Inchicore Special' orange on 160?

Do the 201s fit? 7078 looks great!

Actually I was wrong with this assumption. Except for the Fina three packs (possibly more) many of the Bachmann three packs come with two different tank wagons with cables ties, one with a wide filler port on the top of the tank and two with a smaller one. Been going back over the thread to try to figure out what was prototypical of the early wagons but if anyone can offer any comments to clarify this, that would be extremely helpful.

Odd, it didn't sell, Item condition:Used “Cyril Fry's Rare/ lost ,Queen Mary bus - three foot six inch long - GSR 1938 Great Southern Railway ” ... Read more Ended: 25 Dec, 2014 17:39:22 GMT Starting bid:EUR 10,000.00 [ 0 bids ]

Marion & Gator turned up in Texas!

Nice layout there, Patrick. Memories of home. Merry Christmas!

That's a good point, John. I was looking at the 33" and it didn't occur to me that that was actually the size of the prototypical wheel on the wagon. Which reminded me of something else, on another thread I seem to recall that there are different lengths for the axles, that is to say the width of the axle from tip to tip where it fits into the wagon. I think limas were a little shorter or longer than Hornby or Bachman. I'm going to search for that other thread too. EDIT: John & David had some input on the other thread here: http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3484-Old-Dapol-amp-Lima-CIE-Wagons-on-Peco-Code-75-track?p=54291&highlight=lima+axle#post54291 If rewheeling, it is worth remembering that Lima vehicles use a shorter, approx 24.5mm axle, as opposed to the normal approx 25.75mm axle that everyone else uses, although I believe some smaller manufacturers offer their wheels with different length axles. I personally just reuse the original Lima axles with new wheels, although it can sometimes be a challenge to remove the Lima wheels from the axles.

That's what I thought, but I'm sure Dave will put up some photos at some point. Looks like this is from his 2010 photo bucket which might explain that. Notable, by its absence, is a generator van again. There was some chatter previously that these would come again in Supertrain which is my main modeling era.

Not quite in time for Christmas for most of us but it looks like they're on the way! Dave, would you mind posting a photo or two in the next couple of days when you're sobered up from your festivities so we might see how they look? Merry Christmas to everyone from the Lone Star State!