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Does anybody know what font in MS-Office is closest to the Irish Gaelic GSR type face?

Excellent job and superb result. The pair look great together.

Cheers Patrick. Yes it is gradually taking shape and beginning to have a sense of Gort about it. Now that I'm happy with the proportions of the buildings (shed and tower structure), can spend some time finishing them off and weathering them. Now need to make a start on the station buildings, at least the structures, and keep mini projects operating in parallel. Trying to sequence the steps so everything is ready at the right phase. Lots of wiring to do under the base boards, but these can be turned onto their sides for wiring so no crawling around on the floor needed.

Test fitted the basic structure for the water tower to see how it fits in proportionately. I only have photos and eyeball for measurements and proportions. Will make up the water tank to go on top in the next few days. Goods shed got primed. Will paint it lighter shade of grey before weathering it and adding the doors, roof, etc. I'm thinking of having two removable roofs. One with a large see through glazed section so you can see inside, and another which is prototypical with the small ridge level roof lights.

That looks like the baby GM is sitting on scale 21mm gauge track. Any other photos of the model on 5'3" scale track?

Test fitting again earlier. Its recessed a very little into the side of the platform. The gap in the platform ramp is where the water tower will go. Now I can safely finish off this building knowing it will fit ok with the track alignment and platforms.

Very nice job. Pleasing result seems just right, not over cooked.

Hi Jonathan. Thank you very much. Agree, I think I have enough photos of the goods shed. Its the front head on facia of the station building I'm looking for (ie front track side elevation). So that I can do a drawing and transcribe to card. There are a number of photos online of the station at an acute angle from the track side, but no perpendicular photos. Not even in the planning documents from the rebuild of the line for the western rail corridor.

Yes very dower and dull altogether. Sterile looking.

Quick test fit for the goods shed at the station location. I'll just need to cut 5mm into the edge of the platform which will work out well as a wall about 4mm thick continues to the south of the shed on the platform back. Roof trusses on, will leave overnight Next up is the water tower which will be a tight fit at the end of the platform between the main line and the goods road.

After dry assembling and test fitting the goods shed to station track work, I wasn't happy and decided the gable ends had to be scrapped and remade because the arch was too wide for typical 2 axle goods wagons. So made another pair of gable ends, ready for building assembly tomorrow. If at first you don't succeed try try again. Luckily I had a spare sheet of the coarse stone finish. The gable ends on the left were the replacement versions, the right hand side are scrapped or may be used in the future for some other shed. Dry test fitting over the track and beside the platform showed immediately the the original archway doors were too big and in the wrong place, so off with their heads, had to be redone.

Thank you. Yes Gort the prototype has an unusually straight station section. I was tempted to put a gentle curve in but the essence of that scene is straight track. The next section to the south will have a gentle curve to the left over the bridge in the town centre and then veer off right behind the backscene for a return. Yes eyeball was used to line up the track.

Track laid, after its alignment had been dry tested with pins. Tested with rolling stock for lengths, shunting and uncoupling sites. Trackbed 3mm dense closed cell foam (self adhesive) on top of base board completly covered in a layer of 3mm dense closed cell foam. Hopefully this will reduce noise and perform as well as the old peco foam underlay. The double layers should ensure PVA ballast glue should never come into contact with the baseboard plywood surface, avoiding a sound bridge. Now have some more wiring to do underneath the base board especially for frog polarity switching at each point using Cobalt Analog point motors integrated frog polarity switch. There's a lot more to do, but happy the track is now finally a lock after much dry testing. Before ballasting will double check the station buildings, water tower and goods shed fit snugly.

Thank you Ernie I’ve seen those two and know about the window on the cattle dock side. Window on the cattle dock side.

Thank you. That’s a help, no sign of bricked up windows. If you had a front elevation of the station building that would be a great help. Many thanks.

Thank you Jonathan. Also if he had one front on of the old station building. I’m suspicious there may originally have been windows on the side of the goods shed long since bricked up with stone rather than bricks.

This is the goods shed building I'm hoping to build Photo linked to Eiretrains web site (C) Ciaran Cooney & Barry Carse. http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway Stations G/Gort/IrishRailwayStations.html

Stone arches formed. It has been years since I played with plastic, quite therapeutic patiently cutting, sanding, filling and fettling bits of plastic card. Every time I look at a photo of the original building I realise there are more bits to make and more parts to fabricate. Spotted more holes to be drilled for door rails, etc

What a treasure. Superb job. Reeks of atmosphere.

Fabulous layout scenes.

Tony Mirolo and Anthony Smyth are masters of resprays and weathering. I think Tony does some of the resprays for Chris Dyer.

Its been a while since I worked with Balsa. Roof trusses. Ready for construction

A collectors gem @WRENNEIRE probably already has some in his Aladdin's cave! A bit of modelling history. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Model-Irish-Railways-CIE-Class-B-Iarnrod-Eireann-141/124496414735?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225114%26meid%3D12562ff26c3d4c45b63e7dcd38f2bdc3%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D15%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D284123013354%26itm%3D124496414735%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3Adf614137-4ade-11eb-a0e2-4ebecbb045b2|parentrq%3Ab55eebc21760a0f05f85a950ffd2c837|iid%3A1

Some doodling with plastic card again. A new old building afoot.

Absolutely love the idea. And would definitely try it for small shunting layout where only a few rolling stock items might need to be converted. Would have a concern about the viability of converting all my MM and coaching and goods wagon stock to run on 21mm. Converting rolling stock especially locos seems to require specialist tools and specialist skills. Not for the feint hearted. Perhaps if there were replacement 21mm bogies manufactured for popular rolling stock (eg MM Cravens, Commonwealth bogies, etc), and replacement wheel sets for MM locos these could be more easily swapped in without need of specialist tools. MM locos seem quite a specialist conversion. For it to be viable to convert my existing layout I'd need flexitrack, medium L&R points, and L&R curved points as well as crossings and slips (tall order), wooden sleeper patterns and colour.