GSR 800

Give us all a break, your preaching to the converted

 

 

 

You will will find that 30 years ago and before, like now people sat down and made what was not available, often to a very high standard. They didnt just make do. They wanted better and they got it.

I'm not saying they made do. I am talking about what was available RTR 30 years ago. I am well aware of excellent kit built and scratchbuilt models, Cyril Frys brilliant models being an example of this

Mmmmm......just beautiful

Only time will tell...

There will be no choice for the new generation after us. They won't know about anything else bar a few 201s on Enterprise and Cork runs. I feel lucky in the fact that I have memories of the A class in their very last years and watching Bell liners in the evenings coming from Belfast to Northwall.

Why would there be? I never saw the steam era and I am modelling it.

Don't think many people will ever model that!

Look how far we have come lads, as Noel said 30 years ago the best we had was a bunch of Hornby stuff repainted in black n tan, now look. The diesel era is almost completely covered loco wise. Coaching stock from the bnt era is also almost complete. The steam era is far from complete, but with Des from SSM many of the main steamers can be modelled also along with coaching stock and freight. 3D printing is in its early years. With the launch of Irish railway models the future looks very promising. What will the scene be like in the next 30 years?

holy Sambo, your rate of work is amazing!

Des

 

You obviously don't beat them enough!

 

If they can write, make them do a hundred lines (in Erse, of course, or Latin, if you really want some fun). "No.4 Rules the Rails - Thomas is a TOY".

 

Grandpa Leslie

 

PS My grandson did a wobbler when his parents took him up to London by train and they couldn't provide him with a GPS so that he knew how fast the train was going - I've been training him hard!

When I first found out about Irish railways (and the 800s) when I was about 6 I took out my tomy Henry train and painted it in a dark green! The rest is history...

Fantastic vids there TDR, great to see how the layout looks in action

A 141 in NIR maroon, had they listened in 1968/9 to engineering people instead of buying the "Hunslets" for political reasons?

 

That was actually a possibility, and one preferred by their loco people as the Hunslets turned out to be a bad buy, underpowered for what they were required to do.

Could NIR have taken a leaf from CIE's book and rebuild the Hunslets with GM engines?

That mogul with the beet rake looks like a photo of a 400 at mallow hauling a long rake of beet emptys tender first. Another excellent scene

A 141 in grey slate livery?

From whom John?

Sound man!

The shade on No.800 meadbh

So..no? Thanks anyway.Hmm does anyone know the type of green or even what mixture for the dark CIE green?

Richie, by any chance would you know what's the type of green CIE green for the steam locomotives were?

Is that an 800 tender I see John?

Your not missin much John. Even James isn't pleased about cgi ..

It basically did. Train spotting had decreased dramatically after steam was banished from the railways, scalextrix were far more popular,and many model railway companies closed down.when Thomas came round,it breathed new life into the hobby and many companies,such as Hornby began making " starter sets". Thomas is how I began to love trains and model trains and would later fall in love in Irish railways, but that's another tale....

Just ideas, Pat. Maybe in a few years..

to start off a company could simply do 184 and 186

A J15 perhaps

Possibly Kev. I believe one of the reasons the steam era is not modelled half as much as the diesel era is the lack of rtr models from that era. I have noted, over the past couple of months a bit of an increase in interest in the steam era. Kieran has a good few NCC locos running round. Anto has a nice amount of steamers running round as well. The modified NCC tank no. 4. I myself run steamers and I am in the middle of converting a mogul and a King Arthur . Nelson and his excellent models of NCC. The steam era is a very interresting one..a humble J15 might kick things off......

The H van was a Citroen - and is already available in HO.

 

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'Twas a joke broithe:facepalm:

Yes, turf burner. Little ones with LED's for signal boxes etc. Ye hardly thought I meant that turfburner?

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Look here you! Your on thin ice now! Next you will be tellin us the H van is some all Renault van which can't get past 3rd and with no brake! (grumbles incoherently)