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Jayzus, that cannot be cheap! Thank Christ he is and good luck. EDIT: So I guess he is James Deegan per the GoFundMe site. I decided to give up one IRM wagon set and rounded that up to a donation plus a little for GFM. Less than 5,000 Euro (68 donations) raised though from the 300,000 goal after several months. Wondering if this is just another railway preservation doomed to failure due to lack of public support.

I haven't seen/noticed this before but then I may not have seen early close-ups of the cabsides. Maybe this was a requirement for US manufactured locomotives that had to be on the loco prior to export? Did it run with this in the grey & yellow livery , at least until the filler pipes fell off? Actually it won't technically go with anything but modern DMUs etc and other preserved liveries such as MM 0141A. I'm presuming for a start that it will retain the modern LED marker light clusters. Will it have any RPSI markings? 2 Foot rule, yes you could run them together but then they rarely if ever ran in consist in this livery, nor in BnT I'm not knocking the model, I've ordered one.

Ah! That's why it's not in the News section. I'm sure there must have been similar excitement to yours in CIE about 1955. But it won't be long now for the model As, I'm sure. Looking forward to some silver, grey and black myself!

That's amazing. Great to see things progressing so rapidly. How is all of this being funded? Well done!

I believe they were still referred to as No1 & No. 2 (no jokes please), not sure if forward etc make that much sense in a double cabbed loco, although I often have problems remembering which is which tbh

I think the Kibri stuff is HO but its hard to appreciate the proper size of trackside machinery so they usually fit in pretty well

I believe the buffers at at 3'6" so looks to be 3'

Looking very well, John!

Quite correct, by comparison the Mk3s with their corrugated roofs can withstand 300T compression forces. I remember this accident as a child. And yes, Cherryville happened again before the wooden bodied stock was finally withdrawn. The wooden bodied stock was fine for its day but not designed for high speed mainline travel like the MK3s

Repainted 141 surely Preserved 141 in consist with 142, modern LED light clusters (4) B141 at Fermoy 1963, original lights (3) and a preserved steam loco (90)

Haha! the first response completed my thought process

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0730/718273-buttevant-train-crash/ About 12:45 the 10:00 am Dublin (Heuston)to Cork (Kent station) express train entered Buttevant Railway Station carrying some 230 bank holiday passengers. The train was diverted off the main down line across a set of 1:8 temporary facing points into a siding. Although the locomotive remained upright in the siding, the older wooden framed carriages immediately behind the engine and generator van jack-knifed across the lines, with the two coaches and the dining car disintegrating under the enormous compression forces of the 60 mph crash. Two coaches and the dining car were totally demolished by the impact. Most of the Cravens coaches remained intact at the rear. Eighteen Irish, British, Austrian and American passengers died and more than 70 people were injured.

Beauparc, 2018 Tara Ore Rake with the 2 converts

New A class A33 at Salford Docks in Manchester about be shipped to CIE and looking somewhat odd with its temporary undersize standard gauge bogies

A unique coach insofar as 11 first/third composites were built by the GS&WR c.1906 initially designed to be a brake tri-composite. You can see the that the first two compartment were designed as firsts with 6/compartment and the two following designed as seconds, but I don't believe they ran that they ran that way with the GSWR abolishing 2nd class c. 1906. It definitely ran as a 2F 5T Brake. Only 861, 862, 863 were clerestory brakes and ran on 6 wheel bogies. The 11 coaches would make a lovely model series actually, since 861/4848A is also in preservation with the RPSI

They're really beginning to look good now, John! I'm in for a pair maybe more when a price point is available. Will they be decorated or just printed? Same question re conversion to 21mm? Thanks, K

I find searches on this site to be difficult. Sometimes it seems like definite keyword in something I'm lookin for are not found. Of course recollection can be faulty and one needs to be on the correct forum to start but it often seems that keywords are not really searched within the text body although titles may be better

Personally agree with Noel and would use closed cell foam well wide of where your glued ballast will end, but you don't have to do anything, your railway. I do remember photos of a beautiful railway model on this site a couple of years ago that had literally gone to pieces due to issues with the baseboards and underlays. If you're going to put the time into it I'd put it on the best foundation possible but up to you.

I had only noticed black window frames on the Mk2a coaches before

That's very useful information but the thing I find odd is that the tailing loco is not running cab first. So were two crews, engineer and fireman traveling on this train, as they tailing loco seems to be under more steam than just enough to keep it idling for the return journey? Other photos of them show the WTs facing opposite directions for the return trip. Surely they didn't turn BOTH locos even if a turntable was available?

Thanks, Noel.

Even though these seemed to be pretty clean in most of the photos I have seen of them, a little weathering would add some realism to the garish PW yellow

Oops, my mistake. I have the book so I'll actually take a gander at that