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  1. 52 minutes ago, skinner75 said:

    From the same channel, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on the Great Lakes is another one - I heard the song that was penned about the sinking late one night on the radio, and found it very moving

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    Big Old Boats is another youtube channel with a lot of good videos on ship sinkings, usually focused on Great Lakers.

    Gordon Lightfoot has many good songs, including some more rail related, including Canadian Railroad Trilogy and Steel Rail Blues.

     

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  2. 2 hours ago, leslie10646 said:

    No, but if there is, it's probably abroad (ie Big Island and beyond).

    Let's see how quickly the Festiniog locos and stock sell out.

    I was very tempted to buy one of each for my sons who spent endless holidays going up and down the Fest. They're lovely models, but they're SO small. The 15mm guy above showed how to do it.

    I think, in time, should steam sell well, T&D plus some cattle wagons, maybe an american style verandah carriage and a brake could be reasonably popular. Certainly very iconic.

    But sure look aren't I talking fanciful stuff, any Irish steam and I'd be a very happy man.

    4 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

    In narrow gauge, I am quite surprised that nobody has yet done a Dingle 2.6.0T, a Donegal 2.6.4T, or perhaps more so an Isle of Man 2.4.0T in RTR.

    There don't even seem to be half-decent kits for any of them.

    Very surprising considering the absolute abundance of 3D printed bodies for narrow gauge locos.

    Perhaps a good donor chassis is lacking?

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  3. 10 minutes ago, K801 said:

    I am hoping IRM announces a 250 piece starter set....

    5 x A Class, 5 x C Class, 50 Mk2s, 40 Railcars, 150 wagons various and an oval piece of track

    The IRM Starter "add on pack" will be another 150 wagons ( all numbered differently of course)

    For finance options, IRM offers a second mortgage on your house..

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  4. 14 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

    I thought that you were playing fast and loose with reality / history until I read the first post in the Thread. Consider the "Like" to be twice over. Nice building work, just as Mullingar was going. Sorry that that has been postponed!

    By the way, nothing fictional about an 800 at Amiens Street - plenty of photographic evidence

    Aye the 800s, along with the 400s and 500s were regulars during the brief period of the Cork Enterprise. Generally used the CIE platforms. Shame it only lasted a few years, but I suppose it took so bloody long...then again the Bundoran express took a similar time for less distance..

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  5. Bit more work done on one of the train sheds today, few more struts and the last of the roofing added. Will need to buy more for train shed no.2.  Needs a good bit of tidying up!

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    Will need to do the Howth Platform/DSER canopy and finish the footbridge, along with a dozen other things. All in good time...

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    B141 idles, her train having been shunted out to allow her to 'free' her from the platform. 

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    A15 arrives with the Sligo train as 141 revs up and heads off to the shed.

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    "Could do with some jaysus buffers" said the Driver. 

    "I know some lads in Carrickmines who do them" said the Guard.

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  6. On 27/1/2023 at 5:15 PM, MOGUL said:

    He has a second bundle up now also with a 201 and 5 MK2Ds for €900.. Again won’t split it which is less than ideal as the MK2s are a mix of black and orange roofs so not even a uniform rake.. plus the value is way off, none of the in really in demand MK2s included.. About €550 is probably fair value IMO(€250 for the 201 and €60 each per coach)

    Open to offers though!

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    They must be trying to pay for rent in Dublin for that money..

     

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  7. On 20/1/2023 at 8:30 AM, Irishswissernie said:

    The first one I immediately thought of Galway but it looks to be open countryside on the left of the negative, I think the M&GWR had a few goods sheds with the curved roof.

    Looking at some other photos, almost certainly Galway. Telegraph poles line up, platform looks the same and a small building with a pitched roof, possibly an office of some kind is there also.

     

  8. 7 hours ago, Mayner said:

    Didn't realise that you had started work on a city terminal, the photo of the B121 and A16 poking out under the footbridge and overall roof certainly captures the look of the prototype.

    There were plans in the early 1900s for a city center terminus off Sackville/O'Connell St similar to an American Union terminal served by all main line companies serving Dublin. It would have had to be on a compact footprint being built in an already built ud densely populated city center area.

    Funnily enough I worked in the Minories in the City of London during the late 1980s, in the evenings I used to travel home from Aldgate Station a compact through terminal station on the Circle Line. London Transport operated a direct limited stop peak hour services from the terminal platforms at Aldgate over the Circle Line and Metropolitan Line to Amersham, Chesham and Uxbridge, travelling at speed in LT A stock on the above ground sections of the Metropolitan Line could be an interesting and exciting experience for anyone used to the sedate progress of the DART

    Very interesting stuff John. Any more info on the proposed O'Connoll St station? I'd imagine it'd be very cramped indeed! 

    The idea of a US union style station served the major companies was where Amiens Central came from, though I wasn't sure of exact placement, though I figured it was central enough, being only a walk down Talbot street from O'Connell street. The design is somewhat influenced by minories in terms of track design.

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  9. A wee update: Amiens gets a revamp

    Amiens has been on hiatus for a good year. Wasn't happy with the limitations I was left with, especially regarding the yard which was left rather cramped and minimal. My solution was to invert or 'mirror' Amiens to the other side of the board, which I think makes it a bit more unique, but importantly opens up space for carraige sidings and the engine shed area. I also used it as an opportunity to rework the station throat. Just a few pics for now!

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    Station throat. All platforms can be accessed, and can access the headshunt closest the shed. Through lines TBA.

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    134 waits for A15 to depart with a commuter to shunt empty coaching stock to the sidings. Passengers crossing the footbridge are glad for the lack of rain.

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  10. On 7/1/2023 at 2:30 PM, murphaph said:

    First attempt at weathering a steam loco (kindly donated to science by @DJ Dangerous). As this loco never actually existed in Ireland anyway I felt happy enough to just use some random tank engine pics for inspiration, mainly a couple of Southern ones that showed the water splashes after the loco had taken on water recently. Also the ash streaking or whatever it is that streaks down from the funnel was evident. Another loco had streaking from the whistle, presumably limescale deposits? I have no idea really. I am actually pretty satisfied with the result. It will someday be hauling Genesis coaches in sunnier climes 🙂

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    Looks excellent. 

    White stuff is scaling from the water aye

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  11. 4 minutes ago, meathdane said:

    Correct on all accounts, boiler has a sizable weight inside of it, as does the tender, the shell itself is plastic

    Bit of an oddity I assume but the actual firebox controls on the foorplate themselves are one big die-cast chunk

    diecast footplates have been around for a while iirc, they just fell out of fashion when the mazac rot became a serious issue across a lot of locomotives. (IIRC Hornby was plagued with motor mounts with mazac rot) 

    It's a shame, I wonder if that put a bit of a damper on the high quality model Hornby and others started to go for in the early 2000s starting with the Merchant Navy class, one of which I own and holds up very well. Perhaps those who were not infants at the time can put a light on that one.

    I think a mogul in a decade or so would be a good RTR model for IRM, and one they can do at the same time as an N/U class release for accurascale. It's something thats been entirely omitted from the British market since the bachmann model. Perhaps it could be the one they are planning to announce, who knows, maybe the extensive lobbying from some got the turf burner into production! 

    Jokes aside, I would lean on the steam locomotive they come out with first being a 'uniquely' irish type ie without a direct british prototype, as 1. Its been done with the Jinties and Moguls, and 2. I don't think they'd go for a 'repaint' of a british prototype as their first Irish model (No need to list out the mods the Ks got, ya know what I mean).

    I hope that with the inevitable move into RTR Irish steam at some point in time, there will be continued support and diversification for kit suppliers and manufacturers to produce the loco types that dont lend themselves as well to RTR production. Otherwise we risk losing a great deal in the process. Mayner of this parish has produced excellent (and quite nice to assemble) loco kits in the 650s and the Achill Bogies, SSM is a staple in irish loco kits and we have an increasing number of high quality 3d printers such as Killian and Ken, along with many others. 

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  12. 47 minutes ago, Colin R said:

     

     

    I also have a pair of these awaiting the day for a layout of 21mm so a K1 and a K1a might have to be be made

     

    I was under the impression that the Bachman body shell were plastic?

    body was plastic (iirc, some parts may have been diecast), footplate was diecast. Had one where the footplate completely disintegrated from mazac rot.

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  13. 7 minutes ago, meathdane said:

    Putting aside my awful paint and weathering attempt, I do have to say the moguls are rather fetching in a mundane kinda way in the grey!

    I'd love one with a proper non split, dcc ready chassis and that horrific quasi kinematic drawbar revised

     

    Other than that, they're a great model to cut your teeth on and a easy modification to start your irish steam conversions!

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    Very nice conversion, suitably filthy!

    The bachmann models have their place in modelling history, but they are starting to show their age. The body itself holds up quite well (when it doesn't suffer from mazac rot) but the chassis is pretty subpar and not suited for any modification (one can see Noel's difficulties in chipping them). The coupler is an interesting one, it was a failed attempt at something I've seen work 20 years later in N scale. 

     

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  14. 8 minutes ago, minister_for_hardship said:

    I assume the original doors got burnt out and they just used standard Inchicore doors rather than trying to source or replicate the old ones?

    Probably more to standardise with the rest of the fleet, the moguls weren't that old.

    Whatever about the handwheels in place of the darts, the MGWR was an early adopter for some of its locos, the GNR seemed to standardise on it in the 20s and 30s and CIE began in earnest from inception. It gives Irish locos a nice 'look' in my opinion.

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  15. 31 minutes ago, Lambeg man said:

    Unfortunately Broithe is sufficiently well informed on railway matters to realize that the vast majority of ex-railway vehicles that made it into agricultural use after withdrawal were in fact GOODS vans, not carriages.

    Theres a H van riddled with shot on my uncles farm.

    There's also a wooden van by the river with 'FOR PRESERVATION' scrawled on a board on it. It's so dilapidated it'll be for the fishes soon... I should probably take a few pictures before that happens.

     

  16. 9 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

     

    Yes, the running off to watch the Swilly's trains wasn't a very glorious episode, but better that than lose modern battleships.

    Don't knock John Jellicoe, his "distant blockade" (Scotland to Norway which you rightly mention) did a lot to help win WW1. Before you bring up Jutland, remember what the New York Times reported a day or two later - 

    "The German High Seas Fleet has assaulted its jailer, but is still in Jail!"

    We'd better stop this or we'll be banned.

    Now, if IRM opted as their next steam offering a 4mm model of HMS Caroline I'd be first in the queue!

    Jellicoe gets credit where its due, and that is bottling the HSF, Jutland, comms, etc. He kept the German fleet bottled up, denying the Germans access to the sea which is all that matters. At Jutland he performed some of the best coordination ever seen in battle, managing to cross the German T in a perfect firing arc. The problem with his run off to Swilly is the loss of a battleship or two is one thing, possibly allowing the Germans to win the race to the sea is quite another, he opened the bottle he had corked, he was just lucky the HSF didnt notice. And he lost a battleship because he moved to Swilly.

    My biggest critique is his steadfast opposition to convoys, which were the most effective means of countering the uboats. Eyeing the HSF from across the sea seemed to give him tunnel vision, Britain was in pretty dire straits supply wise when the US joined, as Admiral Sims found to his horror..

    To keep this somewhat on topic, and on brand for myself, I always thought had Ireland joined the war the 800s would've gotten some proper mileage in and with better coal. the GNRI V class were beat by the end of the war!

    Another thing, I've always wondered what the performance of the oil burners during and after the war wars like.

     

     

  17. 8 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

    Well, of course, there was the little matter that Winnie  put every barrier he could in the road of sending even a shovelful of coal to the (then) Free State. He was miffed that Dev wouldn't allow the use of the former Treaty Ports (given back just before War was declared). That they would have been useful goes without saying, but The Free State was a lot closer to Luftwaffe Bomber bases than bases in Ulster and so the price of "co-operation" was likely to have been heavy.

    The Man with the Cigar DID ignore the tens (hundreds) of thousands of Irish who crossed the Irish Sea and more than did their share of ensuring that the Nazi tyranny was ended.  To say nothing of much looking the other way on numerous occasions.

     

    I doubt Berehaven would have been the best spot for a British squadron to be posted due to the deep republicanism in the area. Geographically a squadron of sloops, frigates and destroyers operating from there would have been effective in covering the western approaches.

    Lough Swilly and Cobh perhaps, but Jellicoe had left the North Sea wide open in the first few months of WW1 running off to Lough Swilly with the entire Grand Fleet while Scapa underwent anti submarine defence improvements. Would have given the High Seas Fleet a good operating window to drive up the channel and blow the pre dreadnought heavy channel fleet out of the water.

    (Coincidentally the man famous for advocating for utilisation of geographic chokepoints such as between Scotland and Norway and the Channel, A.T Mahan, died in a very similar time period...perhaps Jellicoe's gaff pushed him over the edge...)

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