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3173 continued to get end details. Some Glenderg Models post 2004 IÉ tail lamps, steam heat, vac bag and a hanging coupling while waiting for Railtec to post its transfers.

It's BnT cousin got its decals ready and it's ready to enter service behind an A or BGM.

3173 has gained a friend. Now for my favourite part, the transfers...

While waiting for payday and transfers to come, finally pulled the finger out and started on finishing this half finished ebay conversion of a WT tank.

Put her into primer to assess the work done and identify any areas needing tidying up as well as drawing up a to-do list and shopping list for the project.

Once my snag list was drawn up, started work on it, replacing the stock lamp irons with etched ones, filing and adding filler to the cab and bunker changes. Need to add new steps to the bunker. 

That fueling depot not only seems to ooze atmosphere but the pong of sludgy oily ground. Amazing modelling.

Upgrades to the rear of 3173.

Finally getting this model close to the finish line.

16 hours ago, Niles said:

As it stands, private freight operators have had access for what must be a decade now. The fact that there's been no take up says a lot as to its perceived lucrativeness though...

More down to Irish Rail extremely high track access charges, a side effect of which has killed its own business case for a lot of railfreight as its too expensive to run

On 16/1/2023 at 1:58 AM, jhb171achill said:

What is needed is a fleet of bulldozers, and an exemption for all matters pertaining to planning permission, or any other type of permission, plus compulsory purchase orders dished out where needed and when needed - and no obligation for IE to have any "enquiries" or "local consultation" with "stakeholders". Just DO it. It's in the national interest.

And the times that happens, ends up with a piss poor infrastructure. I wouldn't trust parts of Irish Rail with those powers, too many hours of meetings spent with them as clients has been given over to inter company squabbling and empire building. NTA isn't the best at promoting the use of trains but then again that does come down to reading the tempetature of the local man on the street. The Irish want good public transport but not at the expense of the private car.

3 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Very nice. How did you do it ? 

Cambrian Model C67 kits painted with a mix of Humbrol 16 Spray and 154 to bring out the contrasting shades for the panels I wanted to model of varying sunbleaching. Then a splathing of rust, oil, grime, track dirt, dust and smoke weathering powders and washes over the wagons with Railtec providing the transfers.

Christmas workings saw some Northern yellow fangled things roll off the bench.

Large amount of confusion on shed today as 92038 suddenly appeared. 

11 hours ago, BosKonay said:

First shipment t should be across to dublin in about three days. 

Can't wait for my one!

Datumn plates usually used to denote rail levels required for the platforms. No idea about the yellow markers, got a photo of them Jonathan?

21 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Oh no, just curious! I'm all for retro stuff, as you might imagine!

 

But is a logo retro if its been in active use on the locos all the time?

Considering how design savy the team have been with projects, I'd wager on a Jeep or Mogul, with their common LMS parts would be a boost to an Accurascale LMS offering.

That or Fran wants a model of Pat or Sambo.

Back on the standard gauge and working on a few of Lesile's wonderful kits.

10 hours ago, Mayner said:

The pick up system used by OO Works picking up power through the loco on one side with the return through the tender or the "American" system was commonly used for tender locomotives.

It would be worth while converting the bogie wheels to live axle pick up by fitting "Shorting out Brushes" part 4M52 available from Alan Gibson Works sales@alangibsonworkshop.com or by leaving a message for Colin Seymour on 0044-161-679-1607

The best option to improve running and pulling power is to add weight to the tender and modify the drawbar to transfer weight from the front of the tender to the rear of the loco using 'the weighted tender' system. 

The simplest step would be to add weight to the cab to check whether it improves running before carrying out modifications to the tender or drawbar.

Locos with metal chassis and gearing like the OO Works locos require some 'running in' preferably on a continuous run to allow bearings and gearing to bed in to achieve reliable running as there is less in built slop than rtr diesels with plastic gearing.

MGWR 2-4-0 with Weighted Tender weights in front of boiler, below motor and front of tender.

Chassis schematic rigid drawbar and floating leading and center axle tender

Location of weight in tender.

The 2-4-0 continually hauled 21 IRM 4w wagons on test

 

Interesting, thanks John for the information. Certainly something to ruminage on!

10 hours ago, popeye said:

If the tender has pickup through the wheels it should get all the power it needs

over points. 

00 Works have a most unusal method for power pick ups on the Us, the driving wheels pick up power while the power return is through the tender, meaning that while wired for power, annoyingly the tender doesn't aid in pick up. Been meaning to rewire mine as its only let down by its poor running abilities.

Finished the new MSR stock enteries.

Showcasing the evolution of the MSR livery from the busy colours of the early 1890s to the plain 'sunshine' colours of WWI simplicity where manpower and resources were tight on the north west corner of Sodor.

No.20, a compo brake van, the early MSR filirted with provision of 1st class passengers but soon found that bar his Grace, the usilitation of such facilites were not worth the effort to maintain it and so soon downrated it to 3rd class only but seasoned travellers would know which compartments offered a little bit more comfort then the usual fare!

Nos 10 & 19, are Mid Sodor own builds at their works in Arlesdale to their own in house design, No.19 is fitted with side boards to allow usage on the ever popular "The Picnic", the service the MSR offered during summer to holiday makers, a request stop service that travelled the line stopping at local beauty spots and points of interest to allow holidaymakers to enjoy the Sudrian countryside.

1 hour ago, J-Mo Arts said:

This looks like it would do:

General white/black/white Lining (fox-transfers.co.uk)

I'd probably paint a thin line of black on the tanks and then use the individual white lining to cover the edge. Plan will be to use the green rattle can I used for my CIE coaches. 

Would this lining set also be useful for MGWR green? My J72 bash will receive that livery, and it's a bit of a large and expensive product for just one loco. 

It's what I used on my model of 801.

2 hours ago, Edo said:

Given the absence of any mention of who exactly is going to be using the line for freight...........could this finally be an outbreak of .............wait  for it..............long term planning?....ie lets build the infrastructure first and then go after customers.

No there is a customer already idenified for the line and one of the main drivers on the scheme. I did some of the design work for the alignment back in 19 for the client and if their plans are coming through, lot of freight flows will be heading through Foynes.

44 minutes ago, murphaph said:

Limerick is an ideal city in which to develop commuter rail. It actually has railways that are not built on going out in multiple directions from the city. RTE reports that the new rail for the reopening is arriving into Foynes Port (presumably by ship). This all did rather come out of the blue for me too. I assumed it would be report after report and then nothing. If the line is rebuilt to carry freight it will be relatively trivial to add passenger services later.

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2022/1114/1335959-foynes-limerick-rail-line/

It's all a matter of optismisng the cant for lower freight speeds and for higher passenger speeds, minimising the amount of over cantedness for the freight trains and under cantedness for passenger.

3 hours ago, BosKonay said:

Absolutely. We do our best to make everything as modeller friendly as we can. We’ll also have drivers and crew for these in time too

Better be a model of a certain headlamp hi vis wearing individual 

2 hours ago, murphaph said:

I am glad I have all the ones applicable to my chosen era or I'd be going mad that I hadn't sent a representative lol. Do you know what he was charging for these rarities? 

190 for the BGMs and 50 for the CIE flying snail coaches. 

I think the bigger surprise today from Paddy was the discovery of some of the original run BGMs and being sold off by the stand.

10 hours ago, connollystn said:

Have to say, the highlight of the show (for me) was the cafe. Had three cups of tea, a ham sandwich and a couple of extremely tasty scones.

In fairness those sandwiches and scones were seriously good. Didn't expect to leave a model show and instead of regretting not purchasing a model, I was regretting not having another scone!

2 hours ago, patrick said:

What traffic is expected on the line and do Irish Rail have rolling stock to handle it?

Zinc Ore is one of the expected traffic, hence the new procurement process they started a while back for new wagons including ore wagons

https://www.railwaygazette.com/freight/iarnrod-eireann-plans-to-award-wagon-supply-framework-contract/62799.article