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    Whiterock

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted

    43 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

    Ah, yes, the first tool to have in the box, the good old steel rule!

    Do you clamp it down where you're cutting? If I don't the (blank) thing moves!

    Cork-backed rules seem to be still available. 

    iGAGING Ruler with Cork Backing-34-104

    A lot more friction, but the risk of a slight parallax issue, unless you keep the blade at the same angle carefully. It's not a great problem, compared to the benefit of the lack of slippiness.

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    Christmas Modelling

    in Letting off Steam

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    On 7/11/2025 at 11:58 PM, Mayner said:

    The loco appears to be similar to that used in a cheap G gauge train set widely available (Australasia & United States) about 18-20 years ago. The set was popular with large scale modellers loco had basic but effective radio control, and locos/stock good basis for kit bashing into something less toy like. Main differrence between Australiaian and US versions was the placement of the batteries, cab of local version and tender in United States. 

    I have one stashed away somewhere. The intention was to use it as the basis for a garden railway. 

    One of the possibilities was to have a tunnel section and there was concern about what would happen if the signal was lost. Investigations found that it defaulted to full speed, which seemed like a reasonable result for the circumstances.

    Another one of the many things that may still happen - if I live to be a thousand years old.

    Whiterock

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Colin_McLeod said:

    LOL,but it wont fit in Phoenix Park!

    Ireland is 300 miles long and Phoenix Park is 2.6 miles (measured along Chesterfiield Avenue)  :)

     

    Yeah, but the rails don't go right to the extremities.

    Don't be dispiriting the lad - he's probably already done about a quarter of it...

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    Whiterock

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted

    3 hours ago, leslie10646 said:

    Are you going to build York Road (as pre WW2) next - you could have ready for Bangor 2026?

    No shortage of volunteers to run it for you!!!!

    No point in imposing unnecessary limits - just do the whole island in 00 - it will fit neatly inside Phoenix Park.

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    MGWR 3 plank open wagon .stl file

    in Irish Models

    Posted · Edited by Broithe

    53 minutes ago, MOGUL said:

    Good on, tell us... Who won the tug of war?

    I think that time it was the airport tug, after Tonka wouldn't start. Maybe they went to best of three..?

    The tug was because we had a hovercraft to move the forgings around between gantry crane runs. It was much easier to 'organise' things to be in the right place, when you could manoeuvre with more flexibility than only running on rails. This meant filling in the flange gaps in the inset rail lines, to avoid losing too much air. Just done with bits of wood, if someone could remember where they had been put after the last time the hovercraft was used...

    Not twisting your ankle when cross the many tracks around the place was an important skill, particular outside. One morning, glancing down to be sure I was OK, I saw a foot, with a blue trainer on, flash in, as though to trip me. Ready to sort out my assailant, I spun around to find there was nobody at all there, And I was in the middle of an outside yard, with 100 feet of empty space around me - odd, but I just put the hallucination down to overwork.

    Then, in the afternoon, I had a cup of tea and put my feet up, to reveal that I had a black leather safety shoe on one foot, and a blue suede trainer on the other...

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    Interesting Early Irish Railway photos

    in General Chat

    Whiterock

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted

    1 hour ago, derek said:

    Holy cow! Are there in fact three of you Darius? Darius 44 and 45? How the hell do you work so fast/ Excellent stuff

    Oh, come on! It's not like he just spends time posting on here, like a lot of us do.

     

    Oh, hang on! He does that as well...

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    GNR Aeroplane Truck

    in Questions & Answers

    Posted

    There's plenty of WW2 pictures of aircraft being railed, but I can't find any WW1 ones, so far.

    It would, presumably, have been something along the lines of this road transport arrangement. Probably fuselage and wings on separate wagons for most things.

    Motorising An Air Force

    And then reassembled at the destination by riggers.

    The Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and the Royal Air Force (RAF)

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    50th anniversaries of 1st - 3rd November

    in General Chat

    Posted

    27 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

    I’m fascinated by the flag given that this was 1970s Ireland when detente was a long way off….pic from Castlerea Railway Museum FB page 

    At least the flag is the right way up. It's remarkable how many you see on the Big Island that aren't.

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    Irish trawler dragged by sub

    in Letting off Steam

    MGWR 3 plank open wagon .stl file

    in Irish Models

    Posted

    We had some big machines,  finishing 100-ton forgings. so there was quite a bit of swarf - on a Thursday night, you needed to be aware of the swarf train sneaking up on you, pulled by the yellow loco here - which someone had made a nameplate for - Tonka.

    39152-0.jpg

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    Torpedo Vents - Clogher Valley All 1st

    in Irish Models

    Posted

    Things have calmed down on the Big Island over the years of this century, but from around 1990 to 2005, you would hear fireworks every day from around mid-September to the end of the first week in January.

    In the midst of this period, I was listening to a drama documentary* about the bombing of Germany, when I started to think that the soundtrack in the background was getting a bit repetitive - then, I suddenly realised that the next day was bin day, so I decided to put the bin out before I forgot again. When I opened the front door the 'soundtrack' got louder. I had actually been hearing, inside a house, with all the windows closed and the radio on, a firework display at a 'stately home' over four miles away. There can't have been a cat or dog left in the area...

    Also, until the 400th anniversary finally came around, you could have stopped a hundred people in the street and asked them when the Gunpowder Plot happened and you would have been lucky to get any answers in the right decade.
     

    I would applaud the plotters for not doing it in midsummer - I've had quite a bit of stuff come down in the garden still burning.

     

    I went to a "popular classics" concert at Milton Keynes Bowl. Of course, there had to be the 1812 Overture to finish the evening, complete with a professional firework display. The fireworks were very carefully designed to stop burning just before they got back down to the level that they had been launched from. But, the crowd was on quite a high embankment, forming the amphitheatre around the stage. This meant that the thousands of people attending, many with picnics on blankets, etc., were subject to what had become, essentially, an incendiary raid. There was quite a bit of fairly mild panic and I didn't see any injuries, but I was most impressed by the chap in front of us whose blanket was hit, he calmly took the lid off his Thermos flask and put it out - no running about screaming for him...
     

    *Len Deighton's Bomber.

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    Whiterock

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted · Edited by Broithe

    52 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

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    48 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

    I expect that would have to be bleeped out! 

     

    It was in Cyprus, but, if it was at the same time as that video, you should be able to hear it.

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    Birr & other working timetables

    in General Chat

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    1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

    Operating that timetable at a model exhibition would make for a very relaxed show! 

    I once "lived" in a place in the very dullest part of Lincolnshire. We had two buses a week. One Tuesday afternoon, I was cycling past the brick bus shelter, with its tiled roof, but no timetables, when the occupant, a chap in a raincoat and trilby, with a leather suitcase, possibly a travelling salesman, shouted at me "When's the next bus to Lincoln?"

    Ever helpful, I shouted back "Friday!", and cycled on.

    About an hour later, I came back and he was still there and, realising that he had assumed I was lying, I told him, "Look, you've missed the Tuesday bus, the next one is Friday".

    I often wonder what happened to him after, it was a long way from there to nowhere...

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