GSR 800

Forgot about that..

try colm flanagan, he has modified many jeeps and moguls, to an excellent standard

Wow,excellent Richard!

Livery wise, I presume you are talking about UTA black? It had an attractive straw and red lining, that went very well with the black. Here it is on a W class mogul, fresh out of York road, from an overhaul..

I'll try to stick to looking up more Claremorris pictures...

Pint for your troubles?

Tis very true, Old Blarney, tis true.

 

Leafing through these pictures I've posted today I find many family ones too which seem like yesterday but were 20, 30 and 40 years ago.

 

Somewhere amongst it all, for those with a strong stomach, there are shots of an infant me in an AEC on the Harcourt Street line, and standing beside a Donegal 2.6.4T at Strabane. Now, even an oul elephant like me doesn't remember that, still less bring held up to a window in the upstairs of the old Hillsborough railway station as the lifting train did its work below me....

Ah John you couldn't be THAT terrifying surely?

Looking great Jason,well done

Excellent little layout John!, really captures the look of the C&L

I'm not surprised if he is no longer supplying the Irish kits, as the market would be tiny, for narrow gauge Irish locomotives.

If it's an oil burner it should be all-grey, not black (though dirt / oil deposits might make it look black!). Also the common but obvious error that "snail" is yellow. Snails were never yellow on steam engines, be they grey, black or green - this was Whitehead invention when 461 was first restored about 1990 or so. The RPSI had a black livery with yellow snail on 461 and 184. The loco number in unlined yellow, yes, but the "snail" should always, without exception, be pale green lined in gold. CIE simply didn't have transfers in yellow for steam engines. By the time the yellow ones for 121s appeared, no remaining steam engine would ever see a paintbrush again - within a year it would be the scrapper's torch.

 

I would say the stark white circle (and it's interesting to see a model with this - all credit to the modeller for this aspect!) would have ended its white career half way into its first run!

Maybe a thread should be started for what locos looked like in the 40s-50s, body wise and livery wise,for modelling purposes?

Drool drool drool.......!!!!!

 

That C & L stuff is absolutely amazing! Fantastic!

Thought you might like that, so here's a few more..

Yum..

I'll provide yez White circle decals and you can have it as a less rare model......

Any chance to sell,Des will be there!

Have there crankpins arrived yet Des?

OOn3. Would be a challenge indeed! Looking at it the chassis would be very difficult to build with an outside(or sandwich?) frame chassis like that, especially in narrow gauge. Hats off to the builder, whoever he is..

So it's mint, but not mint...

Mint or not mint, that is the question..

Nice model though, and certainly the first model of an oil burning steamer I've seen..

I would take the GSR book if it's still available..

Ye Gods, a Swilly 4-8-0. Scale, gauge, origins?

A real beauty, whatever its origins. Like JB, am hoping there is dark green under the weathering. For me, the Swilly's locos represent the best of Irish narrow gauge. Would love to recreate Casserly's photos of Burtonport - if only I had the space...

Backwoods minatures kit David, and built to an excellent standard too..

Seems to be a bit of green there on the tender

Something that has been hiding from me for a while..

And this website..http://www.chestermodelrailwayclub.com/stock.htm

Harry

 

I should be able to sort out a riveted smokebox overlay for you. The locos ran with the original flush smokebox and tall cast iron chimney into the 1940s

Sound man!

Hi Richard, welcome to the forum!

Dave (Wrenniere) of this forum may be the man to talk to, I'm sure he will be along soon.

Would anyone be willing to put together a riveted smokebox etch for me?

Would be greatly appreciated.

David, if you are building a new layout with a turntable on it, the CDR built a turntable from the frames of a loco at killybegs, which would be of interest.

Well done Harry, good to see someone challenging themselves.

Re those laminated rods, from the pics, looks like you held them in the vice to solder. A better way is to use a couple of small panel pins/tacks, through the crank pin holes into a piece of wood or board. Tin the layers first, flux an then apply the iron.

Take your time and get the chassis rolling smoothly and the rest is cosmetic.

Thanks David. I did indeed use a vice, a rather ancient one at that. Thanks for the idea, I will use it in the future:tumbsup:

Go down and get yourself a pint JB! I don't think ranting is good for your Health!

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....

Ahh classic, cut down a tree with a herring..

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..