Junctionmad

Folks , I was reminded on reviewing my photos, how valuable for historical reasons , the shots of structures at stations are, just as valuable as the locos etc. I just saw that claremorris this year had all the track around the turntable and ballinrobe sidings redone, changed and all the old line side building and diesel refuelling structures etc all bulldozed. Jeepers, this stuff changes in front of our eyes, I have complete photographic record of those demolished buildings ( sure they look worthless to an outsider ) Its amazing stuff just disappears almost in front of our eyes

I think its because if you are going to rewheel everything, you might as well get the gauge right , Why would 5'3" end up at 20.2 by the way, the check gauge ( i.e. flange gauge ) is not a function of track gauge per se, i.e. you can have 21mm with 1mm flangways ( Templot will do this quite nicely ) and in my experience nothing is " drop in " going to 21mm EM or P4, often the backs of W irons have to be modified, bogies modded, etc , longer pinpoints ordered ( which are getting harder to source ) , rewheeling bachman, split chassis stills requires skills etc . its all a reasonable effort and if you own a lot of 00 stock , its a big undertaking My own view on 00 is that the height of the track contributes to the incorrect visual effect , then you add the flat bottom track effect , where the rail is sitting on the ballast, .Code 75 bullhead is now available from four supplies including PECO, and that when ballasted looks far better then what was available in the past, the bullhead rail, sitting above the ballast also gives a " lightness" to the track. I have tried C&L, SMP and the new DCC Concepts code 75 bullhead, the new PECO look a real winner and Ive some on order. Points of course remain a problem. This brings us back to Noels pic of Adavoyle, in my view low profile 00 bullhead, properly ballasted and blended in , can actually look very convincing dave

I love the under frame detail , this must be a class leader for RTR , well done you guys, you must be driving the factory and the tooling people insane

Sad to see this institution going

Fascinating stuff

Ah jaysus lads , open the wrapping

Best of luck with the direct relationship. Obviously the training wheels are no longer needed !

is this the railcar that laid delerict in the old engine shed at LJ in the late 70s or early 80s. I rember seeing something like it there on a visit , but sadly took little notice or is my mind playing tricks

Interesting model. I don't know much about the prototype , were they offshoots of the 2600 aec gnr(I) ðesign tree ?

Now that layout ( along with Grantham ) impressed me. It was operationally near flawless, even if I can't really identify with the prototype. It was an outstanding example of running reliability. I watched it for about 30 minutes , it was totally operated by computer and just a husband and wife team, he chatted away to us visitors. Full working signalling. A real triumph of model engineering , and all using standard peco and tillig track Grantham was a layout I went to Warley to see. Complex ( required 6 operators ) and they were running a timetable which is brave for an exhibition , great layout, mind you it was nowhere near as reliable as the previous one. I must say that all the layouts were to a very high stndatd , sone I liked and some I didn't but all were to a very high standard , scenery in particular has come a long way .

Hmm bleach green don't blow my skirts , so quite surprised it won , horses for courses

I think the most impressive setup was the Dutch layout. One guy ran the whole thing from his computer with no derailments or fingers of god, the layout featured both layout sound and dcc loco sound and was so big ( the train station was to scale length ) you felt like you were one one of the platforms scanning into the distance to see the trains Full working signals , awesome slow speed running and a joy to watch

Well I'm done. That's warley done for me. Got to meet Steve Hewitt of the make your own signals thread on rmweb The full size GWR grange in the middle was very interesting

Strangely all the girls seem to be going in to the motorcycle show ! Hmmmm Wait , I see one girl in the queue , oh she's selling programmes ! Doh

Thanks

I'm there tomorrow , my first visit to Warley

social meeeeedia..... where else

rumor is that the rosslare service will now be stripped of ICRs to divert to this new service , OMG

Won't happen until we stop " one fur all in the audience " capital funding approach. Wrc being a classic case

Take loads of photos please

I know I know, Damm wedding , suggested I skip it to SWMBO , my shin will be better in a few days

Awesome , great shots of Claremorris , especially the goods yard , in the supertrain era. Yummy yummy Loved the beet video , in the early seventies I can remember seeing all those long long beet empties running across the river from my school. Interesting the platform starter at Tuam was replaced to danger rather quickly as the rule was the guard was supposed to verify a signal. ( or else it was a SPAD !!! )

Damm, have wedding to attend

That's the spirt play mr franks. at his own game

Looking at the three kits , the DC kits one is growing n me , but since I've ordered the WW , oh well !