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Look forward to your tutorials Patrick, just one point to remember for those contemplating an open top base board. Models do come off the track and they will go down the hole in the open top, only happened to me once, that was yesterday and my GSR B2a plunged 18" onto some shelves below. The shelves won!! and I now have some severe repair work to do. I shall fix some sort of netting to stop this happening again. And yes I do really like the open top concept it"s worked for me for several years.

Mike

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I hope she(or it) gets better! It's happened to me with a duchess a few years ago except much further! Still works ok though

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Sorry to hijack the thread Patrick, yes my B2a is based on a bachman B1 bought off flea bay well It is the worst running of my split frame locos and I had been doctoring it up and got better running but for some odd reason the rear driver sometimes climb the rail and she took a dive! there may be a picture here. Mike

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Thanks for all the great comments photos and suggestions. They have made getting rid of my beloved stone walls less painful. More foliage has been added since the last layout photo and now the search is on for small trees and maybe a few evergreens (spruce, pine?) which I have noticed in photos of the area. I am contemplating building a small"Rails Through The West" style diorama with stone walls to illustrate my layout building techniques and present it as a tutorial on the site.

 

Brilliant just right , love the ferns/brambles.

 

Don't forget that long grass is more yellow then green

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These photos might assist. The "barrier" wagon appears to be no more than a 20' flat, sans container.

 

Cork Shed in the background?

 

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You'll notice the wagon below used to be a magnesite wagon that has had it's chamfered hopper filled in to create a larger hopper. Bit of a mongrel :)

 

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Hope they help somewhat. R.

 

Super shots, Richie!

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That first pic looks almost like a photograph of a real scene! Truely Superb. I had to look twice at the 1st photo to be sure it was part of a model layout.

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Patrick - wow! Could you please share with us a few 'mini' tutorials on your landscaping and general bushes / irishness :)

 

'Nailed it' doesnt quite go far enough!

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Patrick - wow! Could you please share with us a few 'mini' tutorials on your landscaping and general bushes / irishness :)

 

'Nailed it' doesnt quite go far enough!

 

I second that motion!:-bd

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I've just been looking through some of the Irish Railfans' News on the RPSI website. It seems that the original consist for the oil and magnesite trains was going to be six oil and 12 magnesite wagons for no better reason than they could discharge six oil wagons at a time!

 

Stephen

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Looks superb!

 

Wrong line running? Just interested....?

 

In the third photo the train is on the main line using the platform which has the station building. This seems to have been a common practice at stations where the main line and loop were signalled for bidirectional running even when crossing goods trains. For the first two photos I have no excuse except trying to set up a nice photo!

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Its October and the first beet traffic is running on the South Waterford line. Here are a few photos from an operating session from last night.

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Really nice. Who makes the flat wagon you are using with the 20' containers?

 

The flats are adapted from Dapol Prestwin underframes. The bufferbeam is one eight inch Plastistruct channel and the buffers are from Dart Castings. flat 2.jpg

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Lovely work, Patrick.

 

Can I ask you, I noticed you're sticking with the tension-lock couplers on your stock.

Being from the other side of the pond I thought you would have converted them to Kadees.

Any particular reason you haven't?

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