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Andreas Weniger

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Hello together,
I would like to introduce you to my railway. Is there an introduction thread here? I haven't found it.
So briefly about me. I come from Germany, in the very south on the Swiss border. Married, 2 grown-up children, house, cars, ....  Click
I inherited a garden railway the year before last. I'm building my own little (Irish) world from it. Here are a few pictures of the construction so far. I still have hardly any original wagons and locomotives. I have built the Slieve Callan of the West Clare Railway and an Irish fantasy locomotive. And some freight wagons. Some of the inherited houses I have rebuilt in an Irish style - at least that's what I think. I am not rebuilding an original situation. I am building a model railway to play with and to recreate the atmosphere. this

Now a few pictures and Videos . This was a very short introduction - ask if you want to know more.

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Now the last important building is ready. The pub. The building was created from Pola's "Hofladen" house. Of course it didn't look Irish ... So I rebuilt it. I removed the sloping framework. The filling of the frame is all done with tile glue. Removed the wall with the yard gate and built the wall with the door there. Built a new front for the pup out of styrofoam and plastic waste. The roof of course again with slate shingles and two big chimneys. The frame painted black, the pub striking red. The name of the pub is a tribute to my daughter's horse. She has an Irish Sporthorse called "King of Tullaghan" CLICK (at the bottom of the page)IMG_20210310_130107.thumb.jpg.253537f0c5ded3f19b992c4d9010a027.jpgIMG_20210529_160430.thumb.jpg.0bec12804523fd6e76e57547ad1abf03.jpgIMG_20210603_150837.thumb.jpg.ca6a59a4720deb047babb4d0b9b855b7.jpgIMG_20210603_150845.thumb.jpg.bf03d30f0a6807a0a43de46773a24810.jpgIMG_20210610_165642.thumb.jpg.c151881df2befd72de1f5947db7b69ca.jpg

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Hello everyone,
there is a little news. A passenger train, but it doesn't run so well yet, the wooden bogies are not ideal in my opinion... I'm still going to work on that. 
A new freight train. The wagons are all different wagons that I painted to match. The sheep wagons were built on 3 LGB bogies.
The most important thing is the locomotive. It is originally from LGB no.: 21741 a BR99. I adapted this locomotive to my style of the West Clare Railway. The windows became round, the sand dome was removed, plus a smaller one with the valve. New lamps, fewer pipes, new sand tanks. And of course everything was repainted. The chimney is also new. 
The name of the locomotive is again a mountain from the Burren, Slieve Carran.

 

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On 26/9/2021 at 2:04 PM, Andreas Weniger said:

So briefly about me. I come from Germany, in the very south on the Swiss border. Married, 2 grown-up children, house, cars, ....  Click

Well, I finally got around to looking through the stuff on the link in the first post here.

I strongly suggest that others do the same - there is tremendous stuff in there.

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Hi,
the rails have a track gauge of 45mm. I use a scale of 1:22.5 as a basis. 
The West Clare Railway had a track gauge of 3 ft (914 mm) This does not fit exactly, as 914/22.5 only gives a track gauge of 40mm (but LGB is 45mm).
But visually, on a free model, this is not disturbing.

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