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  1. GSR 800
    Go down and get yourself a pint JB! I don't think ranting is good for your Health!
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    Indeed! Sound Richie, I suppose Meabh acted as a steep (and suitably expensive) learning curve. At the end of the day I managed to get a good enough model of it, after a hell amount of sanding, but ultimately I should have started with something simpler, like the little j26. As for the mess, just wait a few months....
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    Ahh classic, cut down a tree with a herring..
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    Been slavin away at getting the running(thanks john) right, and then getting the motor fitted. After a few tests on the driving axle, and a few tweaks, and forty CoT later( they cups are decisively cropped from the picture!) proved successful, tests with the coupling rods were started, which were successful also (yippee!) At the moment she is a 2-4-0 as, like a total eejit,I managed to shear of some of the crankpins. Better send up some yo yos to Des.. Don't mind the mess..
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    "Knights of Ni"nonsense-stuff,right?
  6. GSR 800
    Never thought the Hunslets were ugly, even if they were unreliable. In the maroon livery, they looked especially good. But I always thought the 80 class were fugly
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    I could build an ark... Or the Olympic?
  8. GSR 800
    Here yez go, cropped, and the right way up John, I will pm you later
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    That is EPIC. The interior is feckin brilliant. i agree with Noel, they should have put it on a straight bit of track, I'm surprised it could even get on that radius.
  10. GSR 800
    Only an undercoat? Pheww, that could have ended in some terrible nicknames
  11. GSR 800
    Does anyone have pics of Meabh in Witham street?
  12. GSR 800
    Pics are a bit all over the place, don't really know what happened.. Anyway, test fitted..
  13. GSR 800
    Started the rods today,put in the vice and laminate, Back in the shop..
  14. GSR 800
    Excellent By the way, I'm really enjoying Rails to Achill, J26s, Achill bogies and Sean Lemass, and some foghorns galore!
  15. GSR 800
    please be of steamers, please be of steamers:praying:
  16. GSR 800
    Kettles all the way! UP THE RPSI!
  17. GSR 800
    But John, surely anything is better than identitrams? I mean day in day out that is all ye see on the Aul Sligo line. The most interesting thing that has happened at Mullingar in months is when the windloff was stabled there during a strike. A 201 might be boring, but at least it's a loco. Phhh
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    Hopefully with the freight tonnage yoke increasing, we will see more locos, and less AND DONT COME BACK!(fires shotgun)boring identitrams
  19. GSR 800
    Yesss...I will consult the money giving machine..
  20. GSR 800
    Your getting slow Richie!
  21. GSR 800
    Thanks for posting this John. I am fairly certain i have never seen a DSER van in its original livery PS If you find some pics of 800s be SURE to post them!
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    Gswr 4-8-0t

    GSR 800 replied to WRENNEIRE's topic in Workbench

    Has the 4-8-0 herself been finished lads? I would love to see some more pics
  23. GSR 800
    Will ye buy one for your favourite customer too?
  24. GSR 800
    I can't be sure if that's the reason, but Meabh was the leader of the class, and was seen as more popular than Macha and Tailte. It certainly looked like the class was changed to make 800 stand out. The pic would have been taken in 49, before the park royals. But you have said yourself,there was rarely a uniformed rake of coaches until the 70s. Before it was a regular sight to see a train with no two coaches the same!
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    Man I love that pic. Truly shows the 800s in the prime, doing what they were supposed to do. As far as I am aware, Tailte carried the extra hand railings to the grave. It seems that that in the late steam days,CIE focused there attention on Meabh when it came to the 800s,cared for her better. They put single chimneys and red nameplates on macha and Tailte, possibly to make Meabh look more unique. Just my opinion
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