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Straw. Typical agri loads overloaded on artic this time of year. Hope they get a big fine. Could have caused a horrific accident to innocents immediately following. Darwin

Love this. Fab-U-lous. Totally sublime. It succeeds by every metric. Great Visual entertainment too Jonathan. Excellent LLPs too.

The passage of time. Hard to believe how much time has passed since the first steps were taken. Baseboards made 2018 Draw out the track plan for transposition now and again later onto closed cell form base Dry testing the track plan 2 years ago. check for fit and general arrangement 2021 Nearing completion a few weeks ago. Will it ever end Ted?

These SF ones need a little weathering to tone down the shade of tan, but very happy with both the 4 wheel and 6 wheel variants. The are the right era for Gort.

10 coach formation is impressive

Don't think that track will ever see wheels run on it again, the sleepers are rotten and track pins in poor shape, no sleeper shoes. Pity it isn't weed sprayed (from the asphalt lane) so the track remains visible to walkers and cyclists. The track is barely visible due to over growth for most of the stitch. Had we more time we could have cycled out to moate.

Stunning job. Class. Like your own version of the loads too.

Cycled a stretch of this greenway today. I travelled regularly on this line as a youngster when the Galway trains used to depart from Westland Row and Amiens street before the Mullingar-Athlone line was closed to passenger traffic. They are currently working on the section through the centre of Athlone including a controversial new decdicated cycle bridge over the river shannon, that looks a bit of an architectural carbuncle as well as butchering the popular Athlone UDC marina on the River Shannon.

Last week had to separate the baseboards temporarily so I could rotate them on their sides to check some wiring. Daylight between the Ennis board and the Athenry board. The brass dowels work well and I was surprised how well the track joins perform and maintain shape despite being just glued by the ballast to the closed cell dense foam track bed.

CIE era goods scene at Woodvale junction on Kingsbridge. B&T with grey J15 !

Gave it a try last year but wasn't happy with the light bleed and the translucent roof. Battery operated Lighting strips with motion sensing to switch on, so no stiff bogie axles due power pickups. Will try and darken the inside of the roof and put skirts inside to try and eliminate light bleed.

Double sided tape failures despite the painted underside of the baseboard, so restuck the cable keeps with the aid of a hot glue gun. Also had to add screws secure the Cobalt IP point motors. Glad I discovered this now and not the first time the layout gets transported. The 8 way DCC accessory decoder ADfx8 has no holes in it so double sided tape the recommended option, but not good enough as this heat proved, so used for wide flat headed screws to secure by overlapping the edge of the PCP (not there yet in this photo). The ADfx8 makes wiring point motors super easy as only two wires to each point and it gets its power from the DCC bus. Point motors have short local wires to each point to handle frog polarity switching. The Cobalt system makes this a painless exercise

Late evening scene. Gort: Just the yard fencing and gates left and then trees and signals. Summer will slow things down a bit. Some lamp posts and then add back people and livestock. Could not be bothered doing much this past week in the heat. But got the cobalts secured with screws and hot glued all the double sided cable keeps under the base board as in the heat many double sided tapes had failed. One final building to be scratch built. The southern platform shelter. The Triang is a mere place holder but has to go, its too toy town and at odds with the adjacent buildings.

Best layout I've seen as a suitable host for Leslie's wagons. The black and white photos could be out of a book depicting scenes in the early 1960s

One of the most authentic and atmospheric 00 gauge layouts I've ever seen. Can't stop re-reading and looking at this thread, just absolutely sublimely stunning. Congrats to all concerned.

Fabulous precision track work as ever. I see the DMC school of digital wiring is an established standard now amongst WMRC

Wow what a beautifully executed concept. Utterly breath taking. Sublime. Absolutely love the filled in turntable. This just reeks of atmosphere and those times. You’ve achieved something rather special. Love it. Well done too to Dave Linfield. Scenic so subtle. It looks photo realistic. Wishing you many years enjoyment operating it and just looking at it too. Mission accomplished I’d say.

Excellent respray, crisp and super sharp. The lining looks factory finish perfect, no wavey lines nor bleed. Well done getting that done in these high temps to a high standard. It almost seems a shame to weather it.

Good idea, Yes I had but unfortunately there is a colour change on the back scene just above wall height and I like the fields disappearing to infinity, rather than closed in. If I lowered the back scene 1" it might work. Backscnese from ID.

Gort is finally beginning to look like a model railway.

Subtle, beautiful, authentic, atmospheric. Hats off

That's stunning Rob. Looks totally brilliant, love the details, it really captures the essence of Heuston right down to platforms, track well, fencing, signage, service gear, sheds, people microscenes, and the lighting makes it feel like the inside of Heuston. Love it. Enjoy.

I still have one in Hornby's gastly dayglo orange. It has no value as a model other than sentimental value from childhood. I also have a BR blue one. The orange was so awful I repainted it by hand and weathered the chassis about 1972. Still has the stick on CIE roundal.

Now time to get started on the Limerick/Ennis board end. The temporary Tri-Ang shelter will have to go and be replaced with a scratch built version from photos Copyright acknowledged to unknown source below. This is what the real shelter looked like. Note the gas lamps on the platform. Will have to mimic the single rail fence between the two stone wall sections. Lots of foliage and trees needed at the Ennis end of this board and some more work on the yard and boundary to the neighbouring merchants yard. My thanks to Jonathan Beaumont and Barry carse for the inspiration for this layout from the photos in their book.

Hi Paul. Thanks but no chimney, its just a line side storage and tool shed used by plate layers, not really for human use, so no stove nor brazier in there and no windows needed.