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After the passenger train leaves Glen More the goods finished its work and heads towards Cork reaching the tunnel at Keilys Cross as the evening light starts to fade.

While 142 shunts at Glen More the Cork Waterford passenger makes it's way through Grange and Keilys Cross.

142 arrives at Glen More and engages in some shunting.

Thanks David. My modelling mojo ebbs and flows and has been absent for the last few months. Expect some more photos from a short operating session, the first in a while in the next few days.

142 emerges from the tunnel at Keilys Cross in the fading evening light.

Having the same issue here in the US and can't sort it out.

Regarding the danger of link and pin couplers in the US it is said that the experience of a brake man could be evaluated by the number of fingers he had lost.

Potomac Division Virtual Clinic 11 Update on the Nickel Plate Tony Koester 4 18 21 edited final - YouTube Tony Koester who writes the Trains Of Thought column in Model Railroader and edits Model Railroad Planning discusses his HO scale NKP layout. Well worth viewing.

Thanks to everyone who responded here, all my questions were answered. My reason for asking is A plan to aquire enough appropriate stock to run a mid sixties operating session on the South Waterford Line which will allow me to run a few green coaches and a silver tin van. A grey and a black and tan 121 and a MM 141 (without the CIE roundal) are already at hand and a black A class is on order so a light green A class will join them. Unfortunatly the yellow panels came after the green coaches dissapeared. Now if only someone would produce a nice 101 class Sulzer I may be able to put off completing that SSM kit which has lived in a drawer for years!

Great information here! One more question, how long did the green livery survive?

Trying to decide which IRM unrebuilt A class to order as raised some questions regarding what liveries they wore and when in the sixties. Specifically when was the black and tan with the high waist band introduced and did many of the class receive it and how long did it last before the all black livery was introduced. Also which green livery was more common, the light or darker green with the white band and how long did this livery last and were some repainted black not ever receiving black and tan with the high waist band before being rebuilt. Thanks.

I'm in Madison Ohio, 40 miles East of Cleveland. CSX's former New York Central double track New York Chicago main line and Norfolk Southern's single track ex Nickel Plate Chicago Buffalo line both run through town. Both very busy railroads.

Thanks for posting this photo though I can't bring myself to click the like button. My first foot plate ride was from Tralee station to the North Kerry yard in the early seventies and I must have explored every inch of it back in the day you could still do such things without getting arrested! By 1989 I had been living in Berlin for five years and was spared the heartbreak of seeing the yard in this state. The next time I returned was to buy socks in the Dunnes Stores which now occupies the site!

20210311_102134.mp4 With only a few months before the arrival of the IRM A class it seems an odd time to do some upgrades on a Silver Fox model. 045 has always been a favourite of mine as I was fortunate to have travelled on her on the last Listowel goods train. The staff catchers were fabricated from styrene, the brake pipe from a wound guitar string, a light gauge D string for the guitar players out there and the windscreen wipers from staples. I pleased with the results and just wish I had done this years ago.

Flower beds is my guess. What embossed stone styrene did you use for the buildings Noel?

Yes the Dutch van, the ex BR mark1 steam heating van, the tin van and four wheel steam heating van are all Silver Fox.

Here are the two passenger consists currently running on the South Waterford Line made up of Silver Fox, IFM coaches and van's and a single MM Craven. One reason I chose to model a secondary line was the short passenger consists which dont overpower the layout. Future plans are to acquire a few green liveries coaches and a silver tin van in order to run a mid sixties operating session, blame it in the gray MM 121 which was irresistible! Meanwhile if anyone has a few surplus IFM laminates I would be very interested.

My level crossing beet train memories involve watching the loaded train on cold winter evenings while stopped with my bicycle at the Edward Street crossing in Tralee. As I remember it an empty train of about 40 wagons would arrive in Tralee in the early hours of the morning and run into the North Kerry yard. A morning run would be made to Abbeydorney then a run to Fenit about mid day then another return trip to Abbeydorney in the afternoon. Occasionally wagons of beet pulp would be in the train. I was fortunate enough that the train crews knew me and allowed me to travel with them on the Fenit and the evening run to Abbeydorney on a number of occasions as a teenager. At Fenit the crew would adjourn to the pub by the station there for refreshments! On returning to Tralee the loaded wagons would be assembled into a train in the North Kerry yard for Mallow or Thurles, I'm not sure which at the time. Today the North Kerry yard is a Dunnes Stores and its car park, rails no longer cross Edward Street and train service to Tralee is provided entirley by rail cars. As for teenage train fans, sadly such access is no longer there.

Aww Love it!

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Cork Waterford goods passes through Glen More. 20210214_202949.mp4

Although it's been a few years since I completed the 12 Bulleid opens the weathering didnt get finished until today. I couldn't resist stringing all of them togeather and admiring them on the layout. Next step is to load half of them and stage them on the layout for operation. 20210212_155217.mp4

The first photo shows a finished model, the second has yet to have rust applied.

Thanks Leslie, now that I'm back on my feet, literally, but will not be ready to return to work for a while yet I'm spending some time on the layout. Speaking of the beet wagons I am currently engaged in weathering a bunch of them. The method I use is first to paint them using a medium grey automotive spray primer. Allowing time for the paint to dry the model is then liberally sprayed all over with a mixture of very dilute black poster paint with a few drops of dish washing liquid. A soft brush is used to work the "grime" into the crevices. The model is then allowed to dry placed upside down so the grime mix won't pool in the interior leaving unrealistic water marks. The procedure is repeated if necessary until a pleasing effect is achieved. Excess grime can be removed with a soft brush and water. When dry the axlebox area gets a light brushing of the same black poster paint to represent oil. When dry the entire model recieves an overall drybrushing of white poster paint. The rust is a grease paint received from our neighbour Bruce who runs disaster preparedness exercises and uses it to simulate wounds! He suggested using it when I asked him if he had any rust coloured chalk. A little goes a long way here and of course prototype photos should be consulted every step of the way. I will post some photos later today.