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Garfield
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Which photos, Weshty?
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That's one of the steam cranes behind the ammonia wagon in the second photo...
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The New Irish Lines website is currently being resuscitated, with content from November's issue now being added: http://www.newirishlines.org. There is also an ongoing project being undertaken to create an online archive of old issues, starting with the first issue of Irish Lines from 1992: http://www.newirishlines.org/archive-2/. Thanks to Dennis Mowatt for taking on the task of scanning these newsletters.
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Nice footage, Broithe... I remember seeing a documentary about the operation on the Discovery Channel some years ago.
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Showing how hardy some of these old aircraft are, an American expedition discovered a B-29 in Greenland back in the '90s that had sat in Arctic conditions ever since it made an emergency landing during WWII. They restored it to flying condition on-site, but unfortunately it suffered a disastrous malfunction whilst taxiing for take-off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Bird#Recovery.2Frestoration_summary
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Rise above it, maestro!
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Good man, Broithe!
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Meanwhile, more seriously good modelling on these layouts: [video=youtube_share;Lo1n7P0kPpo]
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I don't have it to hand, but there's a photo of an MV class with ballast wagons at the end of Barry Carse's book on the Irish Metro-Vicks, and he states that they're ex-SNCF stock. The older ballast wagons were ex-BR seacows. Robert, unfortunately those Mistral wagons are out of production and it doesn't look like there'll be a re-run anytime soon. I've been trying in vain to find some for an absolute age!
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Not offhand... saw it on the BBC lunchtime news last week.
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There's going to be quite a few more Spitfires in 4 or 5 years time... looks like the Burma expedition has struck gold! Geo-physical surveys are showing several airplane-shaped images in crates below the soil. Still plenty of Mustangs around... including a lot of modified airframes used for air racing (i.e. at Reno, etc.).
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Aye, Mayner is working on a rather good-looking 20ft flat... http://www.irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/816-4-wheel-Container-Wagon
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You're not the only one... these are gonna be seriously handy!
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Nice one!
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A bit of everything, really... have a few ideas in mind
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Haha, brilliant! Yes, back to normal now. Present from the missus arrived this week... a nice GoPro camera.
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I had no idea there was a Lightning simulator there... strange location for it! What were the graphics like?
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Personally, I'd love a spin in a BAC Lightning. There's a company in South Africa that offers flights, but it costs the guts of €10,000.
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That's a brilliant video, Broithe... cheers!
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They're the ones that were built in Inchicore
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Show-offs!
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Changing a light bulb 23 feet off the ground.
Garfield replied to Broithe's topic in Letting off Steam
Just watching that on my screen made me feel dizzy! I read a news story not so long ago about one of those guys falling to his death in the US. -
You have no idea how jealous I am of you for having that Sulzer...
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...As you've never seen it before: [video=youtube_share;C6pOTKDg3sE]http://youtu.be/C6pOTKDg3sE
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Looking good, Kirley... always good to see someone modelling that era.