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Thursday May 15th 2024. The last train on the South Waterford Line leaves Grange headed for the Cork fiddle yard. There the rolling stock will be boxed and work will begin dismantling the layout.
Maureen and I have decided it is time for us to move, first to a rental property near her mom who needs more and more help by the day and then look for home with with a garden, something we did not have in a condo and sorley missed. Of course a train room will be a requirement in any new house!
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The white CIE insulated containers would also be very welcome.
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I must have gone through about twenty of these kits just for the underframes and have on occasion considered actually complete one just for fun.
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2 hours ago, TimO said:
Hi Patrick, lovely photos, particularly A42 on the beets. Can I ask you what’s the secret behind your painting on these Bulleid wagons? Is your base colour a silver or a grey colour and what have you used for the ‘rusting’.
I presume your grey on the wooden opens and vans comes from a range of rattle cans?
All my grey wagons, including the Bulleid opens are painted with grey primer from rattle cans. The Bulleids then recieve washes of very diluted black poster paint with a few drops of dish washing detergen sprayed on with a spray bottle. The wash should look like very dirty water. A paint brush is used work the wash into corners and crevices. This process is repeated allowing wash to dry between applications. I have found that it is best to place the wagon upside-down while drying to avoid unrealistic water marks in the interior caused by water pooling.
Once the desired effect is achieved and the wagon is totally dry it is dry brushed with white paint. Using prototype photos as a guide the axel boxes get a wash of black paint to represent oil stains and rust applied using weathering chalk, again consult prototype photos as a guide.
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The Velvet Underground and Nico on vinyl.
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Sad news. I always got great service from them and their postage rates to the US were unbeatable.
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My money is on a 30 ton van.
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Any plans to do the grain hopper again John?
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I appreciate everyone who is trying to sort this issue out. I am extremely bad at tech issues and the best I can offer is that I'm using a Samsung android phone to record and post the videos. Maybe there is something I can do at this end to help.
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A42 leads a beet special passing Kelly's Cross in the setting sun December 1965.
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Crossley power on the South Waterford Line. A42 leads an empty beet special through Grange and meets A55 shunting the pick up goods at Glen More,
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3 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:
The cream interior is an RPSI invention!
Thanks John. The interior looks grey in the O'Dea photo.
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3 hours ago, flange lubricator said:
This is one with flying snail from the O’Dea collection
Thanks guys for all that great information. I believe I will go with the paint scheme shown in the O'Dea photo.
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The latest addition to the fleet is this Provincial Wagons GN brake van. After the dissolution of the GN in 1958 CIE acquired several of these vans. They didn't last long on CIE however I recall seeing one arrive in Tralee on an afternoon goods about 1966. I plan to run it occasionally during mid sixties operating sessions on the South Waterford Line.
Does anyone know if any of these vans were repainted by CIE or if they retained their GN lettering till the end?
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It's really not practical attempting to re-erect the layout given how it is built and in any case given all I have learned in the twelve years since the layout was started any future project will be hopefully built to a higher standard.