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Cheers @LARNE CABIN. No 18 NEM. It plugs into the Dapol NEM pocket. I find dapol NEM pockets tend to droop on most wagons including Dapols own wagons, so a minor tweak is needed to prevent the droop and keep the kadee at gauge height on the horizontal plane, so that the tripping pin does not snag magnets nor points. This tweak is just to slightly file the screw mounting lug on the chassis of one of Leslie's wagons or any dapol wagon slight shorter so that when the screw is in place the NEM pocket is firmly held in the horizontal plane with no play under the screw. It takes only seconds to do but ensures uncoupling magnets will work well for automatic uncoupling and delayed uncoupling . Hope that long winded answer helps.

1 done, 4 more to go. Provincial wagons cattle wagon kit. Enjoyed that.

@Paddy Mac Namara Clever, do you plan to have detection on the main lines to prevent the branch train coming into conflict with main line traffic? Love the bread board.

How about a 201? (photo from https://www.lococarriage.org.uk/eire2016.html) Or the amazing looking dalek B113 (photo https://www.derbysulzers.com/cie.html)

Interesting photo. When the mk2 coaches came over from BR and were fitted with 5'3" bogies did they leave them in BR blue for a while? The NIR livery seemed clever as only required repainting below the windows to convert from BR to NIR

Good news and very keen prices on the 201 and mk2's.

Fabulous Gerry. Looks so authentic

Talking of horses. This guy never put me in a hospital, but his sister did. Many many years ago in another time in another life.

Merciful hour.

Wait for the Murphy 121 and IRM A class to redefine knees

Wow Leslie what a wonderful life history.

Super clip 331kph (206 mph in 1955) not bad. The French were always top engineers in aviation, rail, maritime. These French locos were built before the metrovic A and C class. Just shows how good engineering was in France by comparison at the same time.

800 class steam EMD/GM 121 CIE EMD/GM 141 CIE EMD/GM 181 CIE EMD/GM 071 CIE/IR J15 class steam MV 201/C class CIE MV 001/A class CIE Sulzer 101 class Sulzer 113 class

Fascinating watching the video clip of the yellow machine running on the wider layer CWR. How is it temporarily held in place?

Some great shots as ever, worthy of Tara junction. Presume the works are on both the WLR and the Limerick-Ballybrophy line. PS: How do you find the D7200? Was thinking of a D7200 or D500, but the 500 looks rather heavy and bulky. The D7200 seems a nicer weight and size. Don't think I'd need the AF prowes of the D500 for mainly seascapes and family pics.

That was rural Ireland in its heyday, Nowadays you'd need an environmental impact study done before loading the cattle, a sleeping bag for a snowflake animal rights protestor, and the EPA to seal off the town with a pollution control incident. At least the cattle came with cooking striations pinned to their ears. Not sure about clean shows (Shoes), but I like to keep my wellies clean, don't like to bring too much of that sort of thing into the cab of the tractor, it comes off on the differential brake pedals too easy.

Meanwhile back at a drug free workbench. Gloss varnish this morning in prep for transfers. A few tweaks to be done to the weathering, and then off to slurry junction.

Thanks for that photo Leslie. Looks like the doors in the photo are full length. probably with the short ramp folding upwards against the doors. Road Cattle trucks usually had a full length ramp with folding wings to guide the cattle in. The rain stains are interesting. Somebody had to hose down the inside of these daily and the lower timber panels would have left a gap between the floor so the water and slurry could be washed out.

Like the two torpedo tubes

Started decoration. Not entirely happy with a few weathering bits that will need attention tomorrow. Luckily decal fix solution can be reactivated with water.

Scene of devastation after the 18:15 kings bridge to Galway Good’s train double headed by B121+B188 ran into the back of the 21:00 goods train stopped on the down holding loop at Woodvale Junction. No LLPs where harmed nor injured. No damage to rolling stock, couplings nor buffers. Only two wagons at the rear derailed. Most of the detailed wagons were at the head of the stopped train. Lesson - never leave a layout unattended even for restroom visits, or a minimum leave a signal man on duty. This was to be one of B121s last traffic movements paired with a 141/181 loco, its next traffic roster is due to be running in pair with MM B125 double header hauling a knock special.

Class as ever Eoin.

No prob. It is a good representation. An excellent model kit. Love it. The aluminium strip will do nicely for the next batch your bulleid open wagon kits.

Hi Patrick. Yes I used that kadee tool to shape the staples on the bulleid open wagon for the door limiters. But the staples are a night mare, they keep separating so the next batch of wagons will have alluminum stips instead.

Love it. The narrow DOF on the first photo is very effective.